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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 51c5ad920..532e8c782 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -409,7 +409,10 @@ def encodeFilename(s):
# match Windows 9x series as well. Besides, NT 4 is obsolete.)
return s
else:
- return s.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore')
+ encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
+ if encoding is None:
+ encoding = 'utf-8'
+ return s.encode(encoding, 'ignore')
class ExtractorError(Exception):