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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py16
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 2853ba50f..7faa046c8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -32,15 +32,13 @@ def preferredencoding():
Returns the best encoding scheme for the system, based on
locale.getpreferredencoding() and some further tweaks.
"""
- def yield_preferredencoding():
- try:
- pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
- u'TEST'.encode(pref)
- except:
- pref = 'UTF-8'
- while True:
- yield pref
- return yield_preferredencoding().next()
+ try:
+ pref = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+ u'TEST'.encode(pref)
+ except:
+ pref = 'UTF-8'
+
+ return pref
def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):