From 89938c719e2ef5afea7a292b72c6e9f95c1974e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:23:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Windows output for non-BMP unicode characters

---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index b57fd7a332..9c93209349 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -923,6 +923,9 @@ def _windows_write_string(s, out):
         2: -12,
     }
 
+    def ucs2_len(s):
+        return sum((2 if ord(c) > 0xffff else 1) for c in s)
+
     fileno = out.fileno()
     if fileno not in WIN_OUTPUT_IDS:
         return False
@@ -956,10 +959,10 @@ def _windows_write_string(s, out):
     if not_a_console(h):
         return False
 
-    remaining = len(s)
+    remaining = ucs2_len(s)
     while remaining > 0:
         ret = WriteConsoleW(
-            h, s, min(len(s), 1024), ctypes.byref(written), None)
+            h, s, min(remaining, 1024), ctypes.byref(written), None)
         if ret == 0:
             raise OSError('Failed to write string')
         remaining -= written.value