ENH: Allow poorly formatted stata files to be read
Add a fall back decode path that allows improperly formatted Stata
files written in 118 format but using latin-1 encoded strings to be
read

closes #25960

- [x] closes #25960
- [x] tests added / passed
- [x] passes `git diff upstream/master -u -- "*.py" | flake8 --diff`
- [x] whatsnew entry
