title: Reading DBF file in pandas and save as DF
body: <p>I have a file (screen) in DBF format. I want to write it to the data frame. I found a post: <code>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41898561/pandas-transform-a-dbf-table-into-a-dataframe</code></p>
  <p>And I do what I want with geopandas. But the problem is, that geopandas it's a problematic library. I transfer my code to friend, and he can't run script coz dependencies were broken (I have read that's a common problem with geopandas). So I tried to use another method from the post:</p>
  <pre><code>from simpledbf import Dbf5
  dbf = Dbf5('K01.dbf')
  </code></pre>
  <p>But in this case, I got a coding error: <code>'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 10: invalid start byte</code>. It's possible to handle it?</p>
  <p>File: <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bEVzq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/bEVzq.png" alt="screenshot 1" /></a></p>
  <p>File opened in excel:<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Us63l.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Us63l.png" alt="screenshot 2" /></a></p>
  <p>I need to read it and put in pandas data frame. Can anyone help with it?</p>