makes it work

Author: twoertwein

pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx

@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ cdef class TextReader:
         uint64_t parser_start
         list clocks
         char *c_encoding
+        object encoding_errors_py
         const char *encoding_errors
         kh_str_starts_t *false_set
         kh_str_starts_t *true_set
@@ -376,9 +377,10 @@ cdef class TextReader:
 
         # set encoding for native Python and C library
         self.c_encoding = NULL
-        if not isinstance(encoding_errors, bytes):
+        if isinstance(encoding_errors, str):
             encoding_errors = encoding_errors.encode("utf-8")
-        self.encoding_errors = <const char*>encoding_errors
+        self.encoding_errors_py = encoding_errors
+        self.encoding_errors = <const char*>self.encoding_errors_py
 
         self.parser = parser_new()
         self.parser.chunksize = tokenize_chunksize