From 1639282434c77f4de005fb0a6b81a49425e64d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 07:22:20 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Add encode_dict

---
 youtube_dl/utils.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 7cf91ac19..5529d5291 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1638,6 +1638,10 @@ def urlencode_postdata(*args, **kargs):
     return compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(*args, **kargs).encode('ascii')
 
 
+def encode_dict(d, encoding='utf-8'):
+    return dict((k.encode(encoding), v.encode(encoding)) for k, v in d.items())
+
+
 try:
     etree_iter = xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.iter
 except AttributeError:  # Python <=2.6