From f1927d71e4b0cd515324071f8d97bcd673fcc9bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Carlos Garcia Segovia <jcarlosgarciasegovia@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:24:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Some blip.tv URLs use Unicode characters. urllib2 breaks when
 passing a Unicode string. it needs a UTF-8 byte buffer

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

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index 40f96ad765..099f511cec 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1912,7 +1912,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 		else:
 			cchar = '?'
 		json_url = url + cchar + 'skin=json&version=2&no_wrap=1'
-		request = urllib2.Request(json_url)
+		request = urllib2.Request(json_url.encode('utf-8'))
 		self.report_extraction(mobj.group(1))
 		info = None
 		try: