Some blip.tv URLs use Unicode characters. urllib2 breaks when passing a Unicode strin...

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 40f96ad76590bc732c4d5c422d1d839fe6eb9986..099f511cec753081a1a63c6ed40432db8011ed21 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
                else:
                        cchar = '?'
                json_url = url + cchar + 'skin=json&version=2&no_wrap=1'
-               request = urllib2.Request(json_url)
+               request = urllib2.Request(json_url.encode('utf-8'))
                self.report_extraction(mobj.group(1))
                info = None
                try: