From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:17:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [utils] Correct decoding of large unicode codepoints in uppercase_escape (Fixes ... 
X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a612753db9c22556967bf60c2eee8a8e63cd98ba;p=youtube-dl

[utils] Correct decoding of large unicode codepoints in uppercase_escape (Fixes #2664)
---

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index de9881372..e54ea9d61 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1264,8 +1264,8 @@ class PagedList(object):
 
 def uppercase_escape(s):
     return re.sub(
-        r'\\U([0-9a-fA-F]{8})',
-        lambda m: compat_chr(int(m.group(1), base=16)), s)
+        r'\\U[0-9a-fA-F]{8}',
+        lambda m: m.group(0).decode('unicode-escape'), s)
 
 try:
     struct.pack(u'!I', 0)