diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index e61d2b6d..82a3ce8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   test:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 # runs a test on Ubuntu, Windows and macOS
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64, aws-us] # runs a test on Ubuntu, Windows and macOS
     steps:
       - name: Build
         run: |
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 54ab1061..5a24cc8c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ngiq/brainbrowser",
-  "version": "2.9.5",
+  "version": "2.9.6",
   "license": "GNU Affero GPL 3.0",
   "devDependencies": {
     "bower": "~1.8.8",
diff --git a/src/brainbrowser/lib/loader.js b/src/brainbrowser/lib/loader.js
index 18a2b781..1dabcf56 100644
--- a/src/brainbrowser/lib/loader.js
+++ b/src/brainbrowser/lib/loader.js
@@ -126,6 +126,15 @@
               } catch (e) {
                 /* pako probably didn't recognize this as gzip.
                 */
+               try {
+                if (content_type === "text") {
+                  var dv = new DataView(result);
+                  var decoder = new TextDecoder();
+                  result = decoder.decode(dv);
+                }
+               } catch (error) {
+                //
+               }
               } finally {
                 try {
                   if (canCache) {