From: Ricardo Garcia Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:45:04 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Handle weird OSX locale settings gracefully (fixes issue #43) X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eae2666cb43b254b88cf8cc71b654fc6312643da;p=youtube-dl Handle weird OSX locale settings gracefully (fixes issue #43) --- diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl index becf1d25d..472a8e1cc 100755 --- a/youtube-dl +++ b/youtube-dl @@ -27,6 +27,22 @@ std_headers = { simple_title_chars = string.ascii_letters.decode('ascii') + string.digits.decode('ascii') +def preferredencoding(): + """Get preferred encoding. + + Returns the best encoding scheme for the system, based on + locale.getpreferredencoding() and some further tweaks. + """ + try: + pref = locale.getpreferredencoding() + # Mac OSX systems have this problem sometimes + if pref == '': + return 'UTF-8' + return pref + except: + sys.stderr.write('WARNING: problem obtaining preferred encoding. Falling back to UTF-8.\n') + return 'UTF-8' + class DownloadError(Exception): """Download Error exception. @@ -224,12 +240,12 @@ class FileDownloader(object): def to_stdout(self, message, skip_eol=False): """Print message to stdout if not in quiet mode.""" if not self.params.get('quiet', False): - print (u'%s%s' % (message, [u'\n', u''][skip_eol])).encode(locale.getpreferredencoding()), + print (u'%s%s' % (message, [u'\n', u''][skip_eol])).encode(preferredencoding()), sys.stdout.flush() def to_stderr(self, message): """Print message to stderr.""" - print >>sys.stderr, message.encode(locale.getpreferredencoding()) + print >>sys.stderr, message.encode(preferredencoding()) def fixed_template(self): """Checks if the output template is fixed.""" @@ -297,9 +313,9 @@ class FileDownloader(object): # Forced printings if self.params.get('forcetitle', False): - print info_dict['title'].encode(locale.getpreferredencoding()) + print info_dict['title'].encode(preferredencoding()) if self.params.get('forceurl', False): - print info_dict['url'].encode(locale.getpreferredencoding()) + print info_dict['url'].encode(preferredencoding()) return @@ -1191,7 +1207,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__': 'forcetitle': opts.gettitle, 'simulate': (opts.simulate or opts.geturl or opts.gettitle), 'format': opts.format, - 'outtmpl': ((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl.decode(locale.getpreferredencoding())) + 'outtmpl': ((opts.outtmpl is not None and opts.outtmpl.decode(preferredencoding())) or (opts.usetitle and u'%(stitle)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s') or (opts.useliteral and u'%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s') or u'%(id)s.%(ext)s'),