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diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py
index 2d43ec852..a3e85264a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/compat.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ except ImportError: # Python 2.6
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
compat_etree_fromstring = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
else:
- # on python 2.x the attributes and text of a node aren't always unicode
- # objects
+ # python 2.x tries to encode unicode strings with ascii (see the
+ # XMLParser._fixtext method)
etree = xml.etree.ElementTree
try: