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Had the same problem. Somebody with FontForge knowledge fixed the U+FEFF in my custom fonts and now they work well. Here is how he described what he did:
"I'm not good with Fontforge, so I cheated. Basically, opened the font in Fontforge, selected the space character, ctrl+c for copy, then selected FEFF, ctrl+v for paste. Then menu Metrics->Set Width and set to zero. Then File->Generate Fonts."