From: Sergey M <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:25:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge pull request #7514 from ping/patch-7301
X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c176d7bde6fedfb2572caf09cbeb07e14c2f5f7;hp=76adc820682b78b67ffc9cb1544807f7e021e73b;p=youtube-dl

Merge pull request #7514 from ping/patch-7301

[neteasemusic] Fixes #7301
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diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 01829f71e..ea1ff0547 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(unescapeHTML('%20;'), '%20;')
         self.assertEqual(unescapeHTML('&#x2F;'), '/')
         self.assertEqual(unescapeHTML('&#47;'), '/')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            unescapeHTML('&eacute;'), 'é')
+        self.assertEqual(unescapeHTML('&eacute;'), 'é')
+        self.assertEqual(unescapeHTML('&#2013266066;'), '&#2013266066;')
 
     def test_daterange(self):
         _20century = DateRange("19000101", "20000101")
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index d39f313a4..d00b14b86 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -396,10 +396,14 @@ def _htmlentity_transform(entity):
             numstr = '0%s' % numstr
         else:
             base = 10
-        return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        # See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7518
+        try:
+            return compat_chr(int(numstr, base))
+        except ValueError:
+            pass
 
     # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
-    return ('&%s;' % entity)
+    return '&%s;' % entity
 
 
 def unescapeHTML(s):