@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
if (sys.version_info >= (3,) and sys.platform != 'win32' and
sys.getfilesystemencoding() in ['ascii', 'ANSI_X3.4-1968']
and not params['restrictfilenames']):
and not params.get('restrictfilenames', False)):
# On Python 3, the Unicode filesystem API will throw errors (#1474)
self.report_warning(
'Assuming --restrict-filenames since file system encoding '