After the crash with no evidence of debugger/webapp.exe errors, system restart required (event error on ucrtbase.dll)

[Jean-Yves_Pochez]

it seems that xojo web 2 is very tricky with text encodings.
take good care that all the string you send back to the xojo web kernel are utf8
or you may get big crashes.

What has changed between 2020r21 and 2021r1 for webpage.show?

Yeah it’s the structure. Structure elements, even if they are strings, don’t have encoding information associated with them. I suggest you make an extension method for ensuring the encoding of a string that looks something like this: Public Function ToUTF8(extends s as string) As String If s.Encoding = Nil Then Return s.DefineEncoding(Encodings.UTF8) End If If s.Encoding = encodings.UTF8 Then Return s End If Return s.ConvertEncoding(encodings.UTF8) End Function and the…