youtube-dl

commit 3a0d2f520a0f95c2f87b1c95049135b10206f97f
parent 2103d038b3dac6f489d13282dcd2a6f4b74975c3
Author: Sergey M․ <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:38:28 +0600

[YoutubeDL] Temporary fix for subprocess encoding issues on python2 @ Windows (Closes #4787)

For now filenames will be encoded with preferrefencoding before written to disk

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youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -543,6 +543,11 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
             outtmpl = self.params.get('outtmpl', DEFAULT_OUTTMPL)
             tmpl = compat_expanduser(outtmpl)
             filename = tmpl % template_dict
+            # Temporary fix for #4787
+            # 'Treat' all problem characters by passing filename through preferredencoding
+            # to workaround encoding issues with subprocess on python2 @ Windows
+            if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform == 'win32':
+                filename = encodeFilename(filename, True).decode(preferredencoding())
             return filename
         except ValueError as err:
             self.report_error('Error in output template: ' + str(err) + ' (encoding: ' + repr(preferredencoding()) + ')')