PLY reader does not read vertex UV
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- [X] I have searched for [similar issues](https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D/issues).
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### Proposed new feature or change
I am planning to read PLY files whose headers look like, for example:
```
ply
format binary_little_endian 1.0
element vertex 39809
property float x
property float y
property float z
property float u
property float v
element face 74813
property list uchar int vertex_index
end_header
```
I am reading it with:
```py
mesh = o3d.io.read_triangle_mesh(str(mesh_path / "my_mesh.ply"))
```
However, the Open3D ply reader does not handle the vertex UVs. The `triangle_uvs` field is empty.
Vertex UVs are more efficient than face UVs since each vertex may have many faces associated with it. In practice, for a typical grid mesh, you can save about 6x the storage by having vertex UVs instead.
### References
http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/
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