From 61ee5aeb7363d16c16cdec0914ade78af1afd8fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Kozik <ivan@ludios.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:04:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix UnicodeEncodeError with --write-info-json on Python 2.7 +
 Windows

Fixes #4244
---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 94b496dd0..f339fcb31 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
     """ Encode obj as JSON and write it to fn, atomically """
 
     fn = encodeFilename(fn)
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform != 'win32':
         encoding = get_filesystem_encoding()
         # os.path.basename returns a bytes object, but NamedTemporaryFile
         # will fail if the filename contains non ascii characters unless we
-- 
2.22.2