commit 34308b30d6c2b05819e362deab94ce590c325e67
parent bc1506f8c01fb7039bb6015b6d950e832facd82d
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:48:07 +0200
Warn if no locale is set (#1474)
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -104,6 +104,17 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
self._download_retcode = 0
self._num_downloads = 0
self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)]
+
+ if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and
+ sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968']
+ and not params['restrictfilenames']):
+ # On Python 3, the Unicode filesystem API will throw errors (#1474)
+ self.report_warning(
+ u'Assuming --restrict-filenames isnce file system encoding '
+ u'cannot encode all charactes. '
+ u'Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.')
+ params['restrictfilenames'] = True
+
self.params = params
self.fd = FileDownloader(self, self.params)