BUG: read_table unicode bug #1975

Author: changhiskhan

pandas/io/parsers.py

@@ -295,9 +295,6 @@ def read_table(filepath_or_buffer,
     if kdict.get('delimiter', None) is None:
         kdict['delimiter'] = sep
 
-    # Override as default encoding.
-    kdict['encoding'] = None
-
     return _read(TextParser, filepath_or_buffer, kdict)
 
 @Appender(_read_fwf_doc)

pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py

@@ -840,6 +840,11 @@ def test_parse_cols_list(self):
             assert_frame_equal(df, df2)
             assert_frame_equal(df3, df2)
 
+    def test_read_table_unicode(self):
+        fin = StringIO('\u0141aski, Jan;1')
+        df1 = read_table(fin, sep=";", encoding="utf-8", header=None)
+        self.assert_(isinstance(df1['X.1'].values[0], unicode))
+
     def test_read_table_wrong_num_columns(self):
         data = """A,B,C,D,E,F
 1,2,3,4,5