attempt at fixing windows console printing

Author: beaufour

flickr_download/flick_download.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 import argparse
+import codecs
 import errno
 import logging
 import os
@@ -209,6 +210,11 @@ def main():
     if not ret:
         return 1
 
+    # Replace stdout with a non-strict writer that replaces unknown characters instead of throwing
+    # an exception. This "fixes" print issues on the standard Windows terminal
+    if sys.stdout.encoding.lower() != 'utf-8':
+        sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter(sys.stdout.encoding)(sys.stdout, 'replace')
+
     if args.list:
         print_sets(args.list)
         return 0