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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl')
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index d39f313a4..d00b14b86 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -396,10 +396,14 @@ def _htmlentity_transform(entity): numstr = '0%s' % numstr else: base = 10 - return compat_chr(int(numstr, base)) + # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7518 + try: + return compat_chr(int(numstr, base)) + except ValueError: + pass # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation - return ('&%s;' % entity) + return '&%s;' % entity def unescapeHTML(s): |