From b60016e83139ace517fc823cf2b22756e64c2e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:39:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Deal with implicitly UTF-16 decoded webpages

These webpages don't specify an encoding and rely on the BOM
---
 youtube_dl/extractor/common.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index 692d828da..6c5d77e58 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=
                           webpage_bytes[:1024])
             if m:
                 encoding = m.group(1).decode('ascii')
+            elif webpage_bytes.startswith(b'\xff\xfe'):
+                encoding = 'utf-16'
             else:
                 encoding = 'utf-8'
         if self._downloader.params.get('dump_intermediate_pages', False):