Automatic signature extraction fails if username contains cyrillic characters on Windows

[phihag]

pwd is C:\Users\Минка\Desktop>

  File "youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.pyo", line 360, in _extract_signature_funct
ion
  File "ntpath.pyo", line 108, in join
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcd in position 9: ordinal
not in range(128)

WARNING: Warning: Falling back to static signature algorithm
[youtube] encrypted signature length 86 (42.43), itag 43, html5 player en_US-vfl
G0UvOo
WARNING: Automatic signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last
):
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.pyo", line 871, in _decrypt_signature
  File "youtube_dl\extractor\youtube.pyo", line 360, in _extract_signature_funct
ion
  File "ntpath.pyo", line 108, in join
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcd in position 9: ordinal
not in range(128)
....

[snify]

Any progress?

[dstftw]

This issue will be fixed in the next release of youtube-dl. Thanks for the report.

[phihag]

This fix has made it into youtube-dl 2014.10.26. Refer to our FAQ if you need help updating.