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On Windows, the
--execoption causes an encoding error if used on videos with special characters in the title (in this case, the offending character iséinDavid Guetta - What I Did For Love (Lyric Video) ft Emeli Sandé). Note that this issue is not the only blocker for--execon Windows, see #5889, although a fix for #5889 is not required in order to reproduce this particular issue.A suggested solution would be encoding the filename according to the detected filesystem encoding. My personal hack-workaround encodes the resulting command in the mbcs encoding which Windows uses, apart from also fixing the quoting issue from #5889.