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-rwxr-xr-xyoutube-dl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 20e26f99c..bc7e3b5fe 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
youtube_search_ie = YoutubeSearchIE(youtube_ie)
# File downloader
- charset = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
+ charset = locale.getpreferredencoding()
if charset is None:
charset = 'ascii'
fd = FileDownloader({