[Mac OS] UnicodeEncodeError

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Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 465, in main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/__init__.py", line 58, in _real_main
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/options.py", line 899, in parseOpts
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/optparse.py", line 1402, in parse_args
    self.error(str(err))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2014' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)
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<end of log>

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So I get this error no matter what command I give to youtube-dl. Even just typing 'youtube-dl' into terminal gives back the same error. Really not sure what to do at this point. Any help or redirection would be appreciated.

Thanks :)

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