From: Ricardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:08:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Improve preferred encoding detection method
X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f94b636c3ec6410570e5d384e66d651a89de6abe;p=youtube-dl

Improve preferred encoding detection method
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diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index b1f271793..5efc55e6d 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -33,15 +33,15 @@ def preferredencoding():
 	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'
+	def yield_preferredencoding():
+		try:
+			pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+			u'TEST'.encode(pref)
+		except:
+			pref = 'UTF-8'
+		while True:
+			yield pref
+	return yield_preferredencoding().next()
 
 class DownloadError(Exception):
 	"""Download Error exception.