Telegram Bot gets "Bad Request: message text is empty" : <p>When my Telegram bot sends sendMessage to Telegram server it gets the error message:</p>

<pre><code>{"ok":false,"error_code":400,"description":"Bad Request: message text is empty"}
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<p>The problem appeared this morning, before that my bot worked a whole year without errors. GetUpdates command works well as before. I use GET HTTP method to send commads:</p>

<pre><code>https://api.telegram.org/bot&lt;MyToken&gt;/sendMessage
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<p>with UTF-8-encoded data attached:</p>

<pre><code>{"chat_id":123456789,"text":"any text"}
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<p>Has anyone encountered this?</p>
