From b60016e83139ace517fc823cf2b22756e64c2e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:39:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM --- youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py index 692d828da..6c5d77e58 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py @@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote= webpage_bytes[:1024]) if m: encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii') + elif webpage_bytes.startswith(b'\xff\xfe'): + encoding = 'utf-16' else: encoding = 'utf-8' if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):