Why go missing umlauts?

[andrewjswan]

youtube-dl.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w -o "Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.avi" -v -w
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w', '-o', 'Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.avi', '-v', '-w']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.avi
[download] Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.avi has already been downloaded

Mötley Crüe <> Motley Crue ?

Windows 7 x86 (Russian)

[phihag]

Don't pass in --restrict-filenames; what it does is precisely to leave out the umlauts.

[andrewjswan]

Sory, wrong log. Correct:
youtube-dl.exe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w -o "Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.avi" -v -w
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w', '-o', 'Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.avi', '-v', '-w']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Extracting video information
[download] Destination: Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.avi

[jaimeMF]

The problem is that even if you pass the title with umlauts, youtube-dl gets it without them, for example in OS X it works fine

$y-dl  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w -o "Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.avi" -v -w
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--keep-video', '--verbose', '--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail']
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fSFu-ZaX0w', '-o', 'M\xc3\xb6tley Cr\xc3\xbce - Kickstart My Heart.avi', '-v', '-w']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.08.21
[debug] Git HEAD: a91b954
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Darwin-11.4.2-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Extracting video information
[info] Video description metadata as JSON to: Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.avi.info.json
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Downloading thumbnail ...
[youtube] -fSFu-ZaX0w: Writing thumbnail to: Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.jpg
[download] Destination: Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart.avi
[download]   2.9% of 34.83MiB at 919.71KiB/s ETA 00:37

[jaimeMF]

Sorry, but I hadn't seen it was being handled in #1236.