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31 August 2026
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Why does this JSON validate in one tool and fail in another?
A UTF-8 BOM turns a 34-byte valid object into 37 bytes. jq passes; browser JSON.parse fails at U+FEFF. A valid stamp is a parser’s stamp.
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