update default UA string (Closes #390)

[youtube-dl] / README.md

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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
     -r, --rate-limit LIMIT   download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
     -R, --retries RETRIES    number of retries (default is 10)
     --dump-user-agent        display the current browser identification
-    --user-agent None        specify a custom user agent
+    --user-agent UA          specify a custom user agent
     --list-extractors        List all supported extractors and the URLs they
                              would handle
 
@@ -122,6 +122,27 @@ The URLs youtube-dl outputs require the downloader to have the correct cookies.
 
 youtube has switched to a new video info format in July 2011 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
 
+### ERROR: unable to download video ###
+
+youtube requires an additional signature since September 2012 which is not supported by old versions of youtube-dl. You can update youtube-dl with `sudo youtube-dl --update`.
+
+### SyntaxError:Non-ASCII character ###
+
+The error
+
+    File "youtube-dl", line 2
+    SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x93' ...
+
+means you're using an outdated version of Python. Please update to Python 2.6 or 2.7.
+
+To run youtube-dl under Python 2.5, you'll have to manually check it out like this:
+
+       git clone git://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl.git
+       cd youtube-dl
+       python -m youtube-dl --help
+
+Please note that Python 2.5 is not supported anymore.
+
 # COPYRIGHT
 
 youtube-dl is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.