From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:39:39 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages
X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b60016e83139ace517fc823cf2b22756e64c2e63;p=youtube-dl

Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages

These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 692d828da..6c5d77e58 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                           webpage_bytes[:1024])
             if m:
                 encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+            elif webpage_bytes.startswith(b'\xff\xfe'):
+                encoding = 'utf-16'
             else:
                 encoding = 'utf-8'
         if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):