From afc7bc33cb8dc63a5e3495e7e11b47f84d89be23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 06:49:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [xattr] Always use UTF-8 On Windows and other systems, other encodings would break when trying to encode non-ASCII characters. Simply use UTF-8, like every sane system. --- youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py index 1cb8ecf1c..4317ba836 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py +++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class XAttrMetadataPP(PostProcessor): if infoname == "upload_date": value = hyphenate_date(value) - byte_value = value.encode(preferredencoding()) + byte_value = value.encode('utf-8') write_xattr(filename, xattrname, byte_value) return True, info -- 2.22.2