Path.read_text()/write_text() default to the platform encoding (cp1252
on Windows), which mangles or crashes on UTF-8 files. yt-dlp's
video.info.json is UTF-8 and routinely contains non-ASCII bytes, so on
Windows the parse raised UnicodeDecodeError, was swallowed by a bare
except, and the /watch report came back missing Title/Uploader.
- download.py: read video.info.json as UTF-8; log parse failures to
stderr instead of swallowing them silently.
- whisper.py, setup.py: same UTF-8 fix on .env reads and writes for
symmetry across platforms.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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