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diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 26c1f0e74..6fb35faad 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
sys.exit(u'ERROR: batch file could not be read')
all_urls = batchurls + args
all_urls = [url.strip() for url in all_urls]
+ _enc = preferredencoding()
+ all_urls = [url.decode(_enc, 'ignore') if isinstance(url, bytes) else url]
extractors = gen_extractors()