Do not pass URLs around in Unicode form (fixes issue #92)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 47c64658631ca9581ff62f344aca60595c398e49..fe8a591606a38c243cb1214372d90b505f41e207 100755 (executable)
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -1578,10 +1578,6 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
                                sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
                all_urls = batchurls + args
 
-               # Make sure all URLs are in our preferred encoding
-               for i in range(0, len(all_urls)):
-                       all_urls[i] = unicode(all_urls[i], preferredencoding())
-
                # Conflicting, missing and erroneous options
                if opts.usenetrc and (opts.username is not None or opts.password is not None):
                        parser.error(u'using .netrc conflicts with giving username/password')