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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 2 |
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 692d828da..6c5d77e58 100644 --- 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): |