On Windows and other systems, other encodings would break when trying to encode non-ASCII characters. Simply use UTF-8, like every sane system.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ class XAttrMetadataPP(PostProcessor):
if infoname == "upload_date":
value = hyphenate_date(value)
- byte_value = value.encode(preferredencoding())
+ byte_value = value.encode('utf-8')
write_xattr(filename, xattrname, byte_value)
return True, info