[utils] Correct decoding of large unicode codepoints in uppercase_escape (Fixes #2664)

10 years ago · a612753db9
parent c8fc3fb524
commit a612753db9
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@ -1264,8 +1264,8 @@ class PagedList(object):

 def uppercase_escape(s):
    return re.sub(
-        r'\\U([0-9a-fA-F]{8})',
-        lambda m: compat_chr(int(m.group(1), base=16)), s)
+        r'\\U[0-9a-fA-F]{8}',
+        lambda m: m.group(0).decode('unicode-escape'), s)

 try:
    struct.pack(u'!I', 0)