From ec0fafbb1915b830035f621f4660c7e46b1a53ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:09:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [extractor/common] fallback on utf-8 when charset is not
 found

fixes #2721
---
 youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index da4193734..9653d44eb 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
             with open(filename, 'wb') as outf:
                 outf.write(webpage_bytes)
 
-        content = webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+        try:
+            content = webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+        except LookupError:
+            content = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
 
         if (u'<title>Access to this site is blocked</title>' in content and
                 u'Websense' in content[:512]):
-- 
2.39.5