Error with BOM

When making a POST request from the server and getting a JSON with BOM (first character is '0xFEFF'), the response leads to an error.
There's a way of handling this, by using .parse(fn) where this function is parsing and strips the BOM character, but isn't there a better way of doing this?

(BTW, I just moved to 3.5.2 where this issue began. In version 1.2.0 it was working without any problems)

Thanks