hotosm/hot-exports — pull request #52 by flavour (2013-09-10 00:11:10+00:00)
Title: Fix UTF-8 Shapefiles

An export of Syrian Admin Boundaries to Shapefile currently corrupts all the Arabic names.
If I use gdal 1.10 locally on Win32 then the syntax in the Pull Request works fine: Shapefile has Arabic names in properly.