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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 26: ordinal not in range(128) #4034
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "**main**.py", line 18, in File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 433, in main File "youtube_dl__init__.pyo", line 139, in _real_main File "youtube_dl\options.pyo", line 635, in parseOpts File "youtube_dl\options.pyo", line 36, in _readUserConf File "ntpath.pyo", line 310, in expanduser UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 26: ordinal not in range(128)There is a bug on Windows starting from the *.exe version higher than 2014.9.12.0 up to the latest. The compiled official *.exe couldn't be run with any command line arguments. The --verbose flag is ignored.
Tested on: windows XPsp3, Win 7(unknown sp\update status).