[youtube] UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

[joepie91]

• Platform: openSUSE 13.1, x86_64, XFCE
• Version: 2015.08.16.1
• URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdiO9cI37E
• Resolver: youtube
• Error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)

sven@linux-etoq:~/archive> youtube-dl -v --title --continue --retries 4 --write-info-json --write-description --write-thumbnail --write-annotations --all-subs --ignore-errors --merge-output-format mkv -f bestvideo+bestaudio $1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdiO9cI37E
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--title', u'--continue', u'--retries', u'4', u'--write-info-json', u'--write-description', u'--write-thumbnail', u'--write-annotations', u'--all-subs', u'--ignore-errors', u'--merge-output-format', u'mkv', u'-f', u'bestvideo+bestaudio', u'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdiO9cI37E']
[debug] Encodings: locale ANSI_X3.4-1968, fs ANSI_X3.4-1968, out ANSI_X3.4-1968, pref ANSI_X3.4-1968
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.08.16.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Linux-3.11.10-29-desktop-x86_64-with-SuSE-13.1-x86_64
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.7.2, ffprobe 2.7.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Downloading webpage
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Extracting video information
WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Searching for annotations.
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Downloading DASH manifest
[info] Writing video description to: HYZA vs Imigranti   POZOR NA FTKOVINY-KNdiO9cI37E.description
[info] Writing video annotations to: HYZA vs Imigranti   POZOR NA FTKOVINY-KNdiO9cI37E.annotations.xml
[info] Writing video description metadata as JSON to: HYZA vs Imigranti   POZOR NA FTKOVINY-KNdiO9cI37E.info.json
[youtube] KNdiO9cI37E: Downloading thumbnail ...
ERROR: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 666, in extract_info
    return self.process_ie_result(ie_result, download, extra_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 712, in process_ie_result
    return self.process_video_result(ie_result, download=download)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1323, in process_video_result
    self.process_info(new_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1517, in process_info
    self._write_thumbnails(info_dict, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2012, in _write_thumbnails
    with open(thumb_filename, 'wb') as thumbf:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 31: ordinal not in range(128)