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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/common.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index da4193734..9653d44eb 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
outf.write(webpage_bytes)
- content = webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+ try:
+ content = webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+ except LookupError:
+ content = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
if (u'<title>Access to this site is blocked</title>' in content and
u'Websense' in content[:512]):