Bug: no ecoding setting for xls.parse

[timmie]

Hello,
my excel file contains units in a row:

"m²", "°", etc.

It appears that this generates unicode errors:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 339: invalid start byte

Please see the discussion / documentation here:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/openpyxl-users/UnicodeDecodeError/openpyxl-users/dH0Vbkwuo_w/-fbN1nHifK0J
• http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html?highlight=encode

So my suggestion would be to incorporate an encoding option in the openpyxl reader.
But I cannot see that it's used in:
https://github.com/pydata/pandas/blob/master/pandas/io/excel.py

[timmie]

seem to be solved after upgrading to pandas 0.12.x