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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 94b496dd0..f339fcb31 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn): """ Encode obj as JSON and write it to fn, atomically """ fn = encodeFilename(fn) - if sys.version_info < (3, 0): + if sys.version_info < (3, 0) and sys.platform != 'win32': encoding = get_filesystem_encoding() # os.path.basename returns a bytes object, but NamedTemporaryFile # will fail if the filename contains non ascii characters unless we |