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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index d999099fe..fa24ebe0d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -104,6 +104,17 @@ class YoutubeDL(object): self._download_retcode = 0 self._num_downloads = 0 self._screen_file = [sys.stdout, sys.stderr][params.get('logtostderr', False)] + + if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and + sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968'] + and not params['restrictfilenames']): + # On Python 3, the Unicode filesystem API will throw errors (#1474) + self.report_warning( + u'Assuming --restrict-filenames isnce file system encoding ' + u'cannot encode all charactes. ' + u'Set the LC_ALL environment variable to fix this.') + params['restrictfilenames'] = True + self.params = params self.fd = FileDownloader(self, self.params) |