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diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index ae0ec49f8..6646fe348 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import datetime
import errno
import io
import json
+import locale
import os
import platform
import re
@@ -159,6 +160,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
include_ads: Download ads as well
default_search: Prepend this string if an input url is not valid.
'auto' for elaborate guessing
+ encoding: Use this encoding instead of the system-specified.
The following parameters are not used by YoutubeDL itself, they are used by
the FileDownloader:
@@ -1200,6 +1202,9 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
def print_debug_header(self):
if not self.params.get('verbose'):
return
+
+ write_string('[debug] Encodings: locale %s, fs %s, out %s, pref %s\n' %
+ (locale.getpreferredencoding(), sys.getfilesystemencoding(), sys.stdout.encoding, self.get_encoding()))
write_string('[debug] youtube-dl version ' + __version__ + '\n')
try:
sp = subprocess.Popen(
@@ -1264,3 +1269,19 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
# (See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1309 for details)
opener.addheaders = []
self._opener = opener
+
+ def encode(self, s):
+ if isinstance(s, bytes):
+ return s # Already encoded
+
+ try:
+ return s.encode(self.get_encoding())
+ except UnicodeEncodeError as err:
+ err.reason = err.reason + '. Check your system encoding configuration or use the --encoding option.'
+ raise
+
+ def get_encoding(self):
+ encoding = self.params.get('encoding')
+ if encoding is None:
+ encoding = preferredencoding()
+ return encoding