read_excel with encoding?

[R M]

Hi,

I am getting my data delivered in (seems like) Windows-1252 encoding, so there are artefacts present in the text.

While googling I found that it used to be possible to run for example:

pandas.read_excel(input_file, encoding="cp1252") 

?

Is there a way I could get proper encoding of the strings inside my dataframe ?

I would much appreciate your help. Thank you

Remi