Avoid using Unicode strings when forming URL requests (fixes issue #50)

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 5efc55e..047cc37 100755 (executable)
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                # Do nothing else if in simulate mode
                if self.params.get('simulate', False):
                        try:
-                               info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'])
+                               info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
                        except (OSError, IOError, urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
                                raise UnavailableFormatError
 
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
                        return
 
                try:
-                       success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'])
+                       success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'))
                except (OSError, IOError), err:
                        raise UnavailableFormatError
                except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err: