From e69f9f5d68aed32cc27ca188b0f51925d949c365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:45:07 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] [downloader/external] Decode error string before writing to
 stderr

---
 youtube_dl/downloader/external.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
index 3ff1f9ed4..fae245024 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/external.py
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class ExternalFD(FileDownloader):
             cmd, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
         _, stderr = p.communicate()
         if p.returncode != 0:
-            self.to_stderr(stderr)
+            self.to_stderr(stderr.decode('utf-8', 'replace'))
         return p.returncode