charmap coded can't encode character

[r0f1]

If I try downloading a video, that has special unicode chars in its title I get an exeception:

b"'charmap' codec can't encode character '\\u2014' in position 45: character maps to <undefined>"

Example: Try this video

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMgP0lFyVXA

which contains a special dash in its title. The options I am using are:

options = {
    "outtmpl": u"%(title)s.%(ext)s",
    "restrict_filenames": True
}

I there a way to tell the program (eg. via the output template parameter), that special chars in the title should be escaped?

[dstftw]

Post the full output of youtube-dl when run with --verbose option.

[r0f1]

Program:

import sys
from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL

def print_progress(d):
    k = dict(d)
    if d["status"] == "downloading":
        msg = "\r[%(status)s] %(_percent_str)s of %(_total_bytes_str)s %(filename)s"
    else:
        msg = "\n[%(status)s] %(filename)s" 

    sys.stdout.write(msg % k)
    sys.stdout.flush()


options = {
    "outtmpl": u"%(title)s.%(ext)s",
    "postprocessors": [{
        "key": "FFmpegExtractAudio",
        "preferredcodec": "mp3"
    }],
    "progress_hooks": [print_progress],
    "restrict_filenames": True,
    "verbose": True
}

with YoutubeDL(options) as ydl:
    ydl.download(["http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMgP0lFyVXA"])

Output: http://pastebin.com/Da5ECtML

I am using Windows 7 and Python Version: 3.4.1

[dstftw]

It fails in your code namely at this line:

sys.stdout.write(msg % k)

You have to use proper encoding that is supported by your terminal. If you don't want to deal with this yourself use ydl.to_stdout instead.