title: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdf in position 100: invalid continuation byte when writing shapefile in geopandas
body: <p>there are hundreds of cases in the form that reading csv-files need to be encoded differently.</p>
  <p>Here, it´s different. I want to write a GeoDataFrame to a shapefile in ArcGIS.`</p>
  <pre><code>df = pd.read_excel(&quot;path.xlsx&quot;)
  df['geometry']  = [Point(xy) for xy in zip(df.lon, df.lat)]
  dfout = geopandas.GeoDataFrame(df,  geometry=df['geometry'])    
  dfout.crs= &quot;EPSG:4326&quot;
  dfout.to_file('path.shp', driver='ESRI Shapefile')
  </code></pre>
  <p>Does anyone know how I can change the encoding when writing here? Or is it something else?</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/J93Gf.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/T6L1K.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>