Can't read utf-8 characters from stdin (Windows only)

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__main__.py", line 19, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 472, in main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\__init__.py", line 93, in _real_main
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 2116, in read_batch_urls
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpkc931nsv\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 2116, in <listcomp>
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 1: character maps to <undefined>

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For some reason, youtube-dl defaults to the cp1252 encoding when reading from stdin in Windows, if there's an utf-8 character present, it crashes like above. I've tried to override this using both the --encoding parameter and the PYTHONIOENCODING environment variable with no success.

[Hrxn]

When running youtube-dl from CMD.exe?

[TheBITLINK]

I'm running it from a Node.js app using child_process.spawn

[dstftw]

Post the data written to stdin.

[TheBITLINK]

Try with إثس

[dstftw]

Still no crash.

[Ensjam]

Same issue

[Ensjam]

Try with "ماجد العيسى فري ستايل"