Query results seem to have started including BOMs sometime today. I had to add code to handle it.
I don't see this documented anywhere.
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F7EF F7BB F7BF
though instead of the expectedEF BB BF
(May be a Firefox artifact). If you fetch the results using thetext/plain
MimeType, it shouldn't be a problem. (Works for me.) Update:application/json
also works for me (BOM auto-handled).