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| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index be599a2b2..52da3b859 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -305,7 +305,14 @@ def _encodeFilename(s): """ assert type(s) == type(u'') - return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore') + + if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.getwindowsversion().major >= 5: + # Pass u'' directly to use Unicode APIs on Windows 2000 and up + # (Detecting Windows NT 4 is tricky because 'major >= 4' would + # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.) + return s + else: + return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore') class DownloadError(Exception): """Download Error exception. |