Sorry for the bad title, but I’m not sure how to describe this in a one-liner…
I’m building a component for Joomla (3.9.19), and in a form I have a select of languages, with the options written in both English and their respective characters. When I try to display the page of my view, I get the Joomla “white screen of death”. I tracked down the issue to the selections by removing a bunch of them at a time, till the page finally worked. I then turned on error reporting to maximum, but it has no effect, returning nothing. I checked the apache error log, and nothing related to this is generated.
In the index file of Joomla I added:
ini_set('display_errors',true);
error_reporting( E_ALL );
But still no errors displayed.
I changed Joomla templates to the defaults Protostar and Beez3 and the page works in both, but doesn’t correctly display the international languages. I copy/pasted the HTML and header meta from another page with the Joomla template I want to use into a normal HTML file, and it works fine – correctly displaying the languages.
I feel like this is related to meta encoding of UTF-8, and if I remove it from my HTML file the characters don’t display correctly…but it’s in the header, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t work in Joomla.
I’m lost as to what else I should look for; any advice would be appreciated!
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Answer
I figured it out. My IDE (NetBeans 12.0) wasn’t correctly setting the file encoding to UTF-8. I used Notepad++ to convert it, and now my Joomla component is working.