Unorthodox method of encoding conversion of shape files between latin6 to UTF8 using ogr2ogr

nordic2utf8.sh

#!/bin/sh

mkdir utf8
export SHAPE_ENCODING="latin6"

echo "Converting to geojson..."

for i in *.shp
do
	f=$(echo $i| cut -d'.' -f 1)
	ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON utf8/${f}.geojson ${f}.shp
	echo "${f}.shp to ${f}.geojson"
done

export SHAPE_ENCODING="utf-8"

echo "Converting back to shp igen..."

for i in *.geojson
do
	f=$(echo $i| cut -d'.' -f 1)
	ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -a_srs EPSG:3006 utf8/${f}_utf8.shp utf8/${f}.geojson -lco ENCODING=UTF-8
	echo "${f}.geojson to ${f}_utf8.shp"
	rm utf8/${f}.geojson
done