Google Sitemaps Broken – Binary Data in SERPs

I have a free fonts download website. While looking through the Google Sitemaps, I saw this list of common ‘words’ in my site’s contents:

List of common words in fontfox.com according to Google Sitemaps

Eh? These are not words! What’s going on? Thinking it might be Google trying to display binary data, I searched for the download script of the site, and sure enough, binary data is being shown in the SERPs:

Google showing binary data in SERPs

Clicking on those links brings up the ZIP file download for each font, exactly as expected.

Anyone else seeing this?

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