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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py
index 1cb8ecf1c..4317ba836 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/xattrpp.py
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class XAttrMetadataPP(PostProcessor):
if infoname == "upload_date":
value = hyphenate_date(value)
- byte_value = value.encode(preferredencoding())
+ byte_value = value.encode('utf-8')
write_xattr(filename, xattrname, byte_value)
return True, info