From 8e686771af73876f93e44c52dc0dcaf99a56b6f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:48:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Decode the reason given on YouTube errors to avoid crashes
 (fixes issue #193)

---
 youtube-dl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index d7b30adca2..c850f26b34 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 				return
 		if 'token' not in video_info:
 			if 'reason' in video_info:
-				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0])
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0].decode('utf-8'))
 			else:
 				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason')
 			return