I'm not a programmer, I just use geany for some real basic stuff, so a lot of this is flying over my head.
2. check for BOMs and use that (if UTF-8 just validate, don't convert) - I have no idea what this means, or how to do?
The only message I get in geany is;
syslog does not look like a text file or the file encoding is not supported.
So for any steps you'd like me to try, please help and be specific how I can accomplish them like BOM?
THANKS