[generic] Add comment for unescaping webpage contents

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Sergey M․ 2014-03-15 04:38:49 +07:00
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@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
except compat_xml_parse_error:
pass
# Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding
# (e.g. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2448)
# Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way
webpage = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(webpage)
# it's tempting to parse this further, but you would