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June 21, 2025 Score: 2 Rep: 14,423 Quality: High Completeness: 60%

The redirection operator > is converting the text to the console's code page.
On wineconsole

Z:\home\lmc\tmp>chcp
Active code page: 437
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>echo 철갑혹성
철갑혹성
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>echo 철갑혹성 > k.out
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>type k.out
????
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>chcp 949
Active code page: 949
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>echo 철갑혹성 > k.out
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>type k.out
철갑혹성

Note: international characters appear as an small empty rectangle but correctly displayed by this site). Kind of:

echo -e '\u2BD1\u2BD1\u2BD1\u2BD1'
⯑⯑⯑⯑

Making subprocess to write to a file and setting encoding on ytl-dlp could work (don't have python on Wine to test)

import subprocess
enc = 'cp949'
f = open('out.txt', 'wb')
p = subprocess.run(f"yt-dlp --encoding '{enc}' --flat-playlist -i --print title PLySOINx0fqvYr6s8aGdqaK9j8CAWcP5U".split(), stdout=f, encoding=enc)

Output on wineconsole (cmd.exe)

wineconsole 2>/dev/null

Microsoft Windows 10.0.2600
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>chcp 949
Active code page: 949
Z:\home\lmc\tmp>type out.txt
Vague (feat. Hey)
새벽 한 시
천 개의 태양
Wish
...

Additionally, yt-dlp can be used as a python module to avoid using subprocess

import json
import ytdlp
URL = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLySOINx0fqvYr6s8aGdqaK9j8CAWcP5U'
enc = 'cp949'
f = open('out.txt', 'wb')
listout = ''
See help(ytdlp.YoutubeDL) for a list of available options and public functions

ydlopts = {
    'extractflat': True,
    'playlistitems': '1-5',
    'encoding': enc
}
with ytdlp.YoutubeDL(ydlopts) as ydl:
    info = ydl.extractinfo(URL, download=False)
    #print(json.dumps(ydl.sanitizeinfo(info)))
    for v in info['entries']:
        listout += f"{v['title']}\n"
f.write(listout.encode(enc))