This seems odd. I definitely used to get a runtime error because of not referencing encoding in such a situation. But now I don’t. I do see now in the documentation that the default encoding is UTF8 when extracting StringValue from a SQLite database, which is what I’m doing here. Perhaps this became the default in a recent version of Xojo.
Or perhaps I saw this runtime error when using StringValue.ToText to extract data from a nonTEXT field in SQLite (e.g., an INTEGER field).