Redirection of output (stdout/stderr) from youtube-dl creates files with unix-type line breaks on Windows

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Example of storing recent list of supported sites:
youtube-dl -v --list-extractors >ytdl-extractors.txt

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--list-extractors']

ytdl-extractors.txt

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Or example of getting title to random trending youtube video ID:
youtube-dl -v -e JIFMN986m8s 1>ytdl-output.txt 2>&1

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-e', 'JIFMN986m8s']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, out cp1252, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.10.29
[debug] Python version 3.7.0 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
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ytdl-output.txt

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Shouldn't youtube-dl by default use the platform-specific type of line break, when outputting to stdout/stderr!?
I haven't had this issue with earlier versions, but noticed it only recently.

Is it a problem of my python installation (Python 3.7.0 - 32 bit) or of youtube-dl?
The used encodings seem to be right or do they not?

[gorbiWTF]

Still happening as of 2019.06.08: Error output correctly uses \r\n but normal output only uses \n on Windows.