Chinese characters on title missing

[jonomon]

Hello All,

I'm on arch linux and I'm trying to download youtube videos that contains chinese characters in the title.

After running the cmd,
youtube-dl -l --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0dMz8RBG7g

I get a filename which looks like: Wanting - (You Exist In My Song) [Trad. Chinese] [Official Music Video]-w0dMz8RBG7g

When I change encodeFilename(s) function in utils.py simply into

def encodeFilename(s):
   .....
    else:
        return s.encode('utf-8')

I get the correct filename.

[phihag]

-l has been deprecated for quite a while now (you can just leave it out), but that's not the problem.

I'm a little bit puzzled by the apparent fix - what does sys.getfilesystemencoding() return on your system? On Python 3, that code path should never be hit. Can you include the whole output you get for youtube-dl -v w0dMz8RBG7g ? On my arch linux, everything works fine.

[jonomon]

Hello there,

Apparently my system's locale was not set correctly. Once sys.getfilesystemencoding() returned UTF-8, everything was fine.

Thanks