--match-title or --reject-title with UTF-8 coded argument

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I am trying to filter out some videos where UTF-8 is used in the title. The key word is also in UTF-8. Here is my example script:

youtube-dl -v --encoding utf-8 --playlist-items 3 --match-title "Смешарики" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos"

The program does not process the UTF-8 coded argument for --match-title "Смешарики" option for me. Please help!

Verbose log

c:\bat>youtube-dl -v --encoding utf-8 --playlist-items 3 --match-title "Смеш
арики" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--encoding', 'utf-8', '--playlist-items', '3'
, '--match-title', 'Смешарики', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshar
iki/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref utf-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-05-15-b18fd2b
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] TVSmeshariki: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU5A-Wp9ujcr5g9sYagAafEA: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from TVSmeshariki
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from TVSmeshariki: Downloading 1 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[download] "╨í╨▓╨╛╨▒╨╛╨┤╨╜╤ï╨╣ ╨╛╨▒╨╝╨╡╨╜ - ╨í╨╝╨╡╤ê╨░╤Ç╨╕╨║╨╕ ╨ƒ╨╕╨╜╨║╨╛╨┤. ╨É╨
╖╨▒╤â╨║╨░ ╤ä╨╕╨╜╨░╨╜╤ü╨╛╨▓╨╛╨╣ ╨│╤Ç╨░╨╝╨╛╤é╨╜╨╛╤ü╤é╨╕ | ╨ƒ╨á╨ò╨£╨¼╨ò╨á╨É 2020!"
title did not match pattern "Смешарики
"
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Uploads from TVSmeshariki

[greyboxgt]

Without --encoding utf-8 option it looks a bit different, but still doesn't work properly:

youtube-dl -v --playlist-items 3 --match-title "Смешарики" "https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos"

c:\bat>youtube-dl -v --playlist-items 3 --match-title "Смешарики" "http
s://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '--playlist-items', '3', '--match-title', 'Смешарики', 'https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2020.05.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg git-2020-05-15-b18fd2b
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube:user] TVSmeshariki: Downloading channel page
[youtube:playlist] UU5A-Wp9ujcr5g9sYagAafEA: Downloading webpage
[download] Downloading playlist: Uploads from TVSmeshariki
[youtube:playlist] playlist Uploads from TVSmeshariki: Downloading 1 videos
[download] Downloading video 1 of 1
[download] "Свободный обмен - Смешарики Пинкод. Азбука финансовой грамотности |
ПРЕМЬЕРА 2020!" title did not match pattern "╨í╨╝╨╡╤ê╨░╤Ç╨╕╨║╨╕"
[download] Finished downloading playlist: Uploads from TVSmeshariki

[dstftw]

As clearly seen from the log you're not passing UTF-8 in the first place.

[greyboxgt]

Fine, I will re-word my question if it is not clear enough.

[greyboxgt]

In case somebody else runs into a similar problem, here is my batch file for Windows:
TVSmeshariki.bat

chcp 65001
youtube-dl ^
--cookies cookies.txt ^
--download-archive archive-TVSmeshariki.txt ^
--playlist-items 1-5 ^
--reject-title "трейлер|сборник|серии" ^
-f bestvideo+bestaudio ^
--merge-output-format mkv ^
-o %%(title)s.%%(ext)s ^
-i ^
"https://www.youtube.com/user/TVSmeshariki/videos"
pause

And also to avoid "OSError: Failed to write string" error, make sure to configure your cmd (command prompt) properties to use the font that supports UTF-8 (for example, Consolas TTF or Lucida Console TTF).