ascii codec can't encode characters in positions 0-2: ordinal not in range (128)

[Jimmm]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AENDDEdvRDXil0LVcC-lPOP4-7Kt7Ha

[Jimmm]

I use windows 7 32 bit German. Playlist is in Russian, but it is the only one with such an error.

[phihag]

Can you post entire output you get when using the -v option? Downloading this playlist works fine for me.

[Jimmm]

my bad, i forgot to mention, that I use:
youtube-dl --batch-file "Playlist_Realnames.txt"

Playlist_Realnames.txt:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AENDDEdvRDXil0LVcC-lPOP4-7Kt7Ha

If I download it directly (URL as parameter) it works fine.

Output:
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[generic] playlist?list=PL1AENDDEdvRDXil0LVcC-lPOP4-7Kt7Ha: Requesting header
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 18, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 804, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 794, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 982, in download
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 510, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 546, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 493, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 158, in extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 204, in _real_extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 159, in _send_head
File "urllib2.pyo", line 404, in open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 422, in _open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 382, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.pyo", line 1214, in http_open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 1181, in do_open
File "httplib.pyo", line 973, in request
File "httplib.pyo", line 1006, in _send_request
File "httplib.pyo", line 953, in putheader
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordin
al not in range(128)

[Jimmm]

Another urls in Playlist_Realnames.txt (I deleted them already from txt) work fine, but this one is always skipped.

[phihag]

This output is still missing a couple of lines. The output should start with [debug] System config:. Also, can you upload the file Playlist_Realnames.txt somewhere? I strongly suspect that there is a strange character in there.

[Jimmm]

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--batch-file', 'Playlist_Realnames.txt']
[debug] Encodings: locale 'cp1251', fs 'mbcs', out 'cp866', pref: 'cp1251'
[debug] Batch file urls: ['\xef\xbb\xbfhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1A
ENDDEdvRDXil0LVcC-lPOP4-7Kt7Ha']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.02.22
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: The url doesn't specify the protocol, trying with http
[generic] playlist?list=PL1AENDDEdvRDXil0LVcC-lPOP4-7Kt7Ha: Requesting header
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 18, in
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 804, in main
File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 794, in _real_main
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 982, in download
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 510, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 546, in process_ie_result
File "youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.pyo", line 493, in extract_info
File "youtube_dl\extractor\common.pyo", line 158, in extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 204, in _real_extract
File "youtube_dl\extractor\generic.pyo", line 159, in _send_head
File "urllib2.pyo", line 404, in open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 422, in _open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 382, in _call_chain
File "urllib2.pyo", line 1214, in http_open
File "urllib2.pyo", line 1181, in do_open
File "httplib.pyo", line 973, in request
File "httplib.pyo", line 1006, in _send_request
File "httplib.pyo", line 953, in putheader
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-2: ordin
al not in range(128)

[Jimmm]

http://www.qfpost.com/file/d?g=tk3DgHrH5

[Jimmm]

what does it mean: \xef\xbb\xbf

[phihag]

That's a BOM (which shouldn't happen on your platform since you're not even using a Unicode encoding). I'll look into how we can ignore it.

[Jimmm]

This is strange, I downloaded over 100 playlists using "Playlist_Realnames.txt" and only this one gave an error.

[phihag]

Yes, the BOM is only in the very first line of the file, so that's expected.

[Jimmm]

I opened my older Playlist_Realnames.txt and it is shown as "ANSI as UTF-8" in Notepad++. But this one is just "UTF-8".

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. This has been fixed in youtube-dl 2014.02.25. Type youtube-dl -U to update.