From 338c235778143badebeceb454ca0830333b31913 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marielle <marielle.dado@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:59:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add default encoding

---
 pandas/io/parsers/readers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
index 9aa927ffe447c..b97c0161958fa 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
     `skiprows`. For example, if ``comment='#'``, parsing
     ``#empty\\na,b,c\\n1,2,3`` with ``header=0`` will result in 'a,b,c' being
     treated as the header.
-encoding : str, optional
+encoding : str, optional, default "utf-8"
     Encoding to use for UTF when reading/writing (ex. 'utf-8'). `List of Python
     standard encodings
     <https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings>`_ .