UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0'

[canavan]

The following error occurs on both Linux and IRIX, both using python 2.7:

$ ./youtube-dl --verbose http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6939029
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6939029']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.11.24.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5+ - Linux-3.11.6-i686-with-Ubuntu-13.10-saucy
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CollegeHumor] 6939029: Extracting information
[CollegeHumor] 6939029: Downloading info XML
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"main", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "./youtube-dl/main.py", line 18, in
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 775, in main
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/init.py", line 728, in _real_main
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 791, in download
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 416, in extract_info
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 129, in extract
File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/collegehumor.py", line 53, in _real_extract
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1300, in XML
parser.feed(text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1640, in feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa0' in position 1416: ordinal not in range(128)

[jaimeMF]

Fixed, thanks for the report!

[Achilles718611]

I faced with the same problem.
I installed Python3.6 and youtudb-dl version is 2020.05.08.

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xfa' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) "

[canavan]

You will have to post the full output of youtube-dl downloading a video that causes the problem with --verbose added to the command line. Even if it's also a collegehumor video, you'll probably have to open a new issue, but if the debug output is substantially similar, refer to this issue in the new one.