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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/external.py16
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
index 1673b2382..7ca2d3143 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
import os.path
import subprocess
-import sys
from .common import FileDownloader
from ..utils import (
encodeFilename,
+ encodeArgument,
)
@@ -60,17 +60,9 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader):
def _call_downloader(self, tmpfilename, info_dict):
""" Either overwrite this or implement _make_cmd """
- cmd = self._make_cmd(tmpfilename, info_dict)
-
- if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.version_info < (3, 0):
- # Windows subprocess module does not actually support Unicode
- # on Python 2.x
- # See http://stackoverflow.com/a/9951851/35070
- subprocess_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
- cmd = [a.encode(subprocess_encoding, 'ignore') for a in cmd]
- else:
- subprocess_encoding = None
- self._debug_cmd(cmd, subprocess_encoding)
+ cmd = [encodeArgument(a) for a in self._make_cmd(tmpfilename, info_dict)]
+
+ self._debug_cmd(cmd)
p = subprocess.Popen(
cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)