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UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 63-65: character maps to <undefined> 'ab_channel' is not recognized as an internal or external command

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Bug report

I ran: ytmdl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWqmJh7JNS4&ab_channel=DOVA-SYNDROMEYouTubeOfficial

Version Info

  • Ytmdl version: 2021.1.14.post1
  • Youtube-dl version: 2021.2.22

How Ytmdl was installed?

python setuptools

Console Log

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Users\aech\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts\ytmdl", line 4, in <module>
    __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('ytmdl==2021.1.14', 'ytmdl')
  File "D:\Users\aech\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 658, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "D:\Users\aech\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1445, in run_script
    exec(script_code, namespace, namespace)
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\ytmdl-2021.1.14-py3.6.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\ytmdl", line 456, in <module>
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\ytmdl-2021.1.14-py3.6.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\ytmdl", line 451, in extract_data
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\ytmdl-2021.1.14-py3.6.egg\EGG-INFO\scripts\ytmdl", line 234, in main
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\ytmdl-2021.1.14-py3.6.egg\ytmdl\core.py", line 109, in download
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\simber\logger.py", line 338, in info
    self._write(message, args, LEVEL_NUMBER)
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\simber\logger.py", line 198, in _write
    self.name
  File "d:\users\aech\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\lib\site-packages\simber\stream.py", line 134, in write
    print(_formatted_out, **params)
  File "D:\Users\aech\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 63-65: character maps to <undefined>
'ab_channel' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:11 (5 by maintainers)

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eitroocommented, Feb 22, 2021

python: Python 3.6.7

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