add support for the Chinese encoding to read or write in fread or fwrite

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Start by tracing the encoding handling in the fread and fwrite entry points, focusing on how file encodings are currently accepted and applied. Verify the expected behavior with GBK-encoded files for both reading and writing, and add or update tests so support for an encoding='gbk' option is demonstrable.

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encoding fread fwrite

Hi,
I'm the heavy user for this package from China.
Could it be possible to add an option <encoding='gbk'>for the argument：encoding from fread or fwrite function,which couldn't deal with Chinese encoding file correctly,like pandas's read_csv or read_excel ?
Thanks a lot!
Looking forward to your reply~

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