youtube-dl 2013.11.19: get-filename get-title for cyrillic titles

[himadri0327]

Though it saves filenames containing cyrillic, it does not display the same when using get-filename option.

U:\> youtube-dl --get-filename http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk
& #1040;& #1083;& #1080;& #1089;& #1080;& #1103; & #1075;& #1086;& #1089;& #1090;& #1091;& #1074;& #1072; & #1074; & #1051;& #1086;& #1085;& #1076;& #1086;& #1085; & #1085;& #1072; 2 & #1085;& #1086;& #1077;& #1084;& #1074;& #1088;& #1080; 2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4

U:\> youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] h6VD7hg93Xk: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] h6VD7hg93Xk: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] h6VD7hg93Xk: Extracting video information
[download] Destination:      2  2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4
[download] 100% of 5.50MiB in 00:0266MiB/s ETA 00:005

U:\> dir *2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4
 Volume in drive U is MyBook3TB-3
 Volume Serial Number is D8D9-4ABE
 Directory of U:\
10/22/13  07:29 AM         5,765,906 Алисия гостува в Лондон на 2 ноември 2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4
               1 File(s)      5,765,906 bytes

[vitorgalvao]

I can confirm this issue in OS X (10.9.1), and with a great deal of special characters. As you mentioned, when downloading it uses the correct video title, but not when using --get-title and --get-filename.

This should not happen, however, according to the documentation, so I’m wondering where the issue lies.

[jaimeMF]

Humm, it works fine in OS X 10.9 here, could you post the output when you run youtube-dl --get-filename http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk --verbose, something like this:

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: ['--write-info-json', '--write-thumbnail']
[debug] Command-line args: ['--get-filename', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'UTF-8', fs 'utf-8', out 'UTF-8', pref: 'UTF-8'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.06.1
[debug] Git HEAD: df872ec
[debug] Python version 3.3.3 - Darwin-13.0.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] Proxy map: {}
Алисия гостува в Лондон на 2 ноември 2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4

We need the the [debug] lines to know the encodings you are using.

[vitorgalvao]

As suspected, the problem was on my end. The tool I was using apparently has some trouble reading the user’s encodings, which was causing the issue.

It’s solved now, thank you for pointing me the right direction.

[himadri0327]

Here's verbose under Win 7 cmd shell:

U:\>youtube-dl --get-filename http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--get-filename', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1252', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp437', pref: 'cp1252'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.04.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
     2  2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4

[himadri0327]

Here's verbose under Win 7 powershell:

PS U:\> youtube-dl --get-filename http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk --verbose
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--get-filename', 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk', '--verbose']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1252', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp437', pref: 'cp1252'
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.04.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
     2  2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4

[dstftw]

C:\Dev\youtube-dl\master>py -3.6 .\youtube_dl\__main__.py --get-filename http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VD7hg93Xk
Алисия гостува в Лондон на 2 ноември 2013-h6VD7hg93Xk.mp4