youtube-dl

commit: b60016e83139ace517fc823cf2b22756e64c2e63
parent 5aafe895fce2a7be9595cb2e56b7bd73a748e6b6
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:39:39 +0100

Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages

These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                           webpage_bytes[:1024])
             if m:
                 encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+            elif webpage_bytes.startswith(b'\xff\xfe'):
+                encoding = 'utf-16'
             else:
                 encoding = 'utf-8'
         if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):