Import MD file with frontmatter

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It looks like that file starts with a UTF-8 BOM (Byte Order Mark).

This is what a hexdump of the file looks like:

$ xxd ./Alienation.md
00000000: efbb bf2d 2d2d 0a74 6974 6c65 3a20 416c  ...---.title: Al
00000010: 6965 6e61 7469 6f6e 0a74 6167 733a 0a20  ienation.tags:. 
00000020: 202d 2063 6170 6974 616c 6973 6d0a 2020   - capitalism.  
00000030: 2d20 616c 6965 6e61 7469 6f6e 0a2d 2d2d  - alienation.---
00000040: 0a0a 5468 6973 2069 7320 6120 6e6f 7465  ..This is a note
00000050: 2e                                       .

Notice that the first three bytes are ef bb bf and that the --- starts at byte 4.

As can be seen in the source code, Joplin expects the first characters of a YAML frontmatter note to be ---, and it seems that the BOM is breaking that assumption.

Edit: I've created a GitHub issue.

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