youtube-dl

commit: 0d94f2474c9fa280b3ae2d6827bac0adf0d2d597
parent 480b6c1e8be96c3769727390f23689857a365135
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Sat,  4 May 2013 07:09:50 +0200

Work around a Python bug on Windows with UTF-8 configuration (#820)

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/__init__.py
6
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1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ __authors__  = (
 
 __license__ = 'Public Domain'
 
+import codecs
 import getpass
 import optparse
 import os
@@ -335,6 +336,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
     return parser, opts, args
 
 def _real_main(argv=None):
+    # Compatibility fixes for Windows
+    if sys.platform == 'win32':
+        # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/820
+        codecs.register(lambda name: codecs.lookup('utf-8') if name == 'cp65001' else None)
+
     parser, opts, args = parseOpts(argv)
 
     # Open appropriate CookieJar