From 45d86abeb4959723860848dea5f47969dfe56c11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:21:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Allow unicode characters in `info.json`

Closes #2139
---
 yt_dlp/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils.py
index 5ce6df7ac..788bf16b7 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ def write_json_file(obj, fn):
 
     try:
         with tf:
-            json.dump(obj, tf)
+            json.dump(obj, tf, ensure_ascii=False)
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
             # Need to remove existing file on Windows, else os.rename raises
             # WindowsError or FileExistsError.