Comment 18 for bug 306589

The original patch (by Ludovic) that got applied does not fix the core of the problem, which is cause by calling .decode() on that string. On my French system:

>>> print sys.getfilesystemencoding()
UTF-8

So replacing decode('utf8') by decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding()) doesn't do anything useful.

I've attached a new patch to bug #913453 that removes the whole decode() part, and now subtitles can be properly downloaded to folders containing accents. When the patch is applied, both issues can be closed.