I have an excel file that contains Persian characters and I want to read it by using pandas.
I tried this:

```
df = pd.read_excel('orders_list_1.xlsx', encoding= 'utf-8')

```

but the output is this, instead of Persian characters, there are question marks:

```
 ???? ?????              ...                                      ?????
0       10837              ...                                  ????? ???
1       84486              ...                                  ????? ???

```