From f5e2efbbf0a4a1fa02df09a12ce9ec69970ab14c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:39:46 +0100
Subject: [options] Handle special characters in argv (Fixes #5157)

---
 youtube_dl/options.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'youtube_dl/options.py')

diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index 4e6e47d6f..35c7e5fb3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -794,6 +794,11 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             write_string('[debug] Override config: ' + repr(overrideArguments) + '\n')
     else:
         command_line_conf = sys.argv[1:]
+        # Workaround for Python 2.x, where argv is a byte list
+        if sys.version_info < (3,):
+            command_line_conf = [
+                a.decode('utf-8', 'replace') for a in command_line_conf]
+
         if '--ignore-config' in command_line_conf:
             system_conf = []
             user_conf = []
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