Artem Pavlenko 73bd1ab83e fixed missing 'encoding' parameter:
>>> from mapnik import *
>>> ds = Shapefile(file='./demo/data/boundaries',encoding='latin1')
>>> pt = ds.envelope().center()
>>> print ds.describe()
>>> for f in ds.features_at_point(pt):
>>>     print f.properties['NOM_FR'].unicode()
>>>     print f.properties['NOM_FR'].__str__()
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