title: Pandas read excel with Chinese filename
body: <p>I am trying to load as a pandas dataframe a file that has Chinese characters in its name.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>df=pd.read_excel("url/某物2008.xls")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and</p>
  
  <pre><code>import sys
  df=pd.read_excel("url/某物2008.xls", encoding=sys.getfilesystemencoding())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But the response is something like: "no such file or directory "url/\xa1\xa92008.xls"</p>
  
  <p>I've also tried changing the names of the files using os.rename, but the filenames aren't even read properly (asking python to just print the filenames yields only question marks or squares).</p>