Weird characters when the script loads sometimes?

[Dimmies]

I've started noticing this weird text showing on the top of my screen. I looked at NUI Dev Tools and found that it was coming from this script. I'm unsure of what causes this, but you can see that head tag has nothing in it and there is no DOCTYPE. Restarting the script has a chance of showing this text again.

The Text

NUI DevTools view

Example of another NUI view (pma-voice)

[ultrahacx]

Are you using any kind of minifier or obfuscator to optimise your NUIs and scripts? Any repro steps would be helpful or if you can send a copy of your resource cause I never faced it personally

[ultrahacx]

Also if you are using Linux and have not updated your server artifact for a while then try to remove globbing from ultra-voltlab fxmanifest cause there was similar issue when files were globbed on old Linux artifact having the globbing bug

[Dimmies]

I'm not using any minifier or obfuscator. I'm also using windows, I can give removing globbing a try if you believe it may still give results. I unfortunately have no clue how/why this happens, just that it happens what seems like randomly and I can get it to happen if I restart the script multiple times (but, randomly) - I installed a brand new copy of the script and am still noticing the issue. Unfortunately I don't have much more information at this point but I'll add onto this if I come across something worth noting.

[ultrahacx]

I'll also try to check it out as soon as I get some time.

[ultrahacx]

Im unable to reproduce it personally as of now but some other people seem to face it on other scripts too randomly so Im not sure if this is some FiveM issue or any error of my script cause I've personally failed to recreate it and haven't got any report from other users too. I'll follow up if I find anything useful which can solve this

[Dimmies]

Hey, saw this was update to remove globbing of the HTML files, I've been running with no globbing and am unfortunately still experiencing the issue

I've been using this fxmanifest.lua

fx_version 'cerulean'
game {'gta5'}

author 'ultrahacx'
version '1.0.0'

files {
    'html/script.js',
    'html/screen.html',
    'html/voltage_fail.gif',
    'html/voltage_intro.gif',
    'html/voltage_success.gif',
    'html/empty.png',
    'dlc_hei4/dlc_hei4_v_mg.awc',
    'dlc_hei4/dlc_hei4_fh_mg.awc',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_game.dat151',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_game.dat151.nametable',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_game.dat151.rel',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_sounds.dat54',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_sounds.dat54.nametable',
    'audiodata/dlchei4_sounds.dat54.rel',
}

data_file 'AUDIO_GAMEDATA' 'audiodata/dlchei4_game.dat'
data_file 'AUDIO_SOUNDDATA' 'audiodata/dlchei4_sounds.dat'
data_file 'AUDIO_WAVEPACK' 'dlc_hei4'

ui_page 'html/screen.html'

client_script 'client.lua'

server_script 'server.lua'

client_script 'config.lua'

[ultrahacx]

It was just a precautionary measure to make sure that globbing wasn't the issue. Can you try adding the following meta tags in html and see if it works, cause I don't have the issue so I can't verify if it works or not. <meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta content="utf-8" http-equiv="encoding">

[Dimmies]

For sure, I'll give it go and let you know if I notice it anymore, thanks!

[Dimmies]

Just had it happen, went awhile without it happening though, but unfortunately still experiencing the issue

[p1u3o]

We got around this by separating the streamed resources into their own resource.

Appears to happen streaming certain files with NUI.

[Dimmies]

To also add, this seems to have been resolved just today. https://github.com/citizenfx/fivem/issues/1405

I've been unable to test, but if it's not resolved on FiveM side, separating streamed assets (as mentioned above) will likely resolve the issue.