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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 51c5ad920..532e8c782 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -409,7 +409,10 @@ def encodeFilename(s): # match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.) return s else: - return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore') + encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() + if encoding is None: + encoding = 'utf-8' + return s.encode(encoding, 'ignore') class ExtractorError(Exception): |