Recursively create CPG files for your shapefiles to get correct encoding when opening them

create-cpg.bat

@echo off

::http://ssrebelious.blogspot.co.at/2012/03/qgis-and-gdal19-encoding-issue.html
::http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/shapefile_encoding_fixer/
::https://github.com/borysiasty/shapefile_encoding_fixer

::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding#Common_character_encodings
::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page#Noteworthy_code_pages
::1250 - Central European
::1251 - Cyrillic
::1252 - Western European
::1253 - Greek
::1254 - Turkish
::1255 - Hebrew
::1256 - Arabic
::1257 - Baltic languages
::1258 - Vietnamese

::http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-args.html
::d=drive
::p=path
::n=name witout extension

for /R %%f in (*.dbf) do echo 1252> %%~dpnf.cpg