youtube-dl bug with Russian character set? Howto fix?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 15:46, Fyodor Vassiley wrote:

> I have "youtube-dl" installed from MacPorts and downloading a YouTube
> clip with Russian title (Russian characters: Наша с Машей
> опущенность)) ). But the Russian characters are not display in the
> file name on my Lion.
> 
> See
> 
>> which youtube-dl
> /opt/local/bin/youtube-dl
> 
>> youtube-dl -t http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTIkBmrck0
> [youtube] Setting language
> [youtube] mQTIkBmrck0: Downloading video webpage
> [youtube] mQTIkBmrck0: Downloading video info webpage
> [youtube] mQTIkBmrck0: Extracting video information
> [download] Destination: -mQTIkBmrck0.flv
> [download] 100.0% of 1.09M at    2.29M/s ETA 00:00
> 
>> ls -al -- -mQTIkBmrck0.flv
> -rw-r--r--  1 fyodor  staff  1147764 Apr 11 19:17 -mQTIkBmrck0.flv
> 
> Should be Наша_с_Машей_опущенность))-mQTIkBmrck0.flv.
> 
> When downloading the same clip with Jdownloader (Java) - no problem:
> 
>> ls -al *mp4
> -rw-r--r--  1 fyodor  staff  1022898 Oct  8 22:34
> Мочеиспускание))(240p_H.264-AAC).mp4
> 
> How to fix this? I wish to help the dev, because he has most certainly
> no Mac. The problem doesn't exists on Linux.

I'm sorry, I don't know. You'd probably best file a bug report so the problem is forgotten, but I don't know how to fix it so someone else will have to find out and tell me.