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I made a lot of progress, but Kodi 19 has problems with locale settings that become increasingly difficult to work around. Basically, I would have to patch yt-dlp itself to work around some of these problems. yt-dlp should have these fixes to be able to work in these unusual conditions (default filesystem encoding not set, locale set to C...). But that sounds like a lot of work to explain and I can't imagine them being too motivated to fix the numerous places. Better to fix Kodi.

I have been working on Kodi to fix that problem and about to submit a PR for it. It is a big change, so it may take a while to work through it all.  If all goes well it should be in Kodi 20. Then I can return to fixing this problem.

Once I get un-distracted by this Kodi fix then I can return to this yt-dlp fix.