Allow errors keyword for HDF IO Encoding Err Handling (#20873)

Author: WillAyd

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.23.0.txt

@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - Updated :meth:`DataFrame.to_gbq` and :meth:`pandas.read_gbq` signature and documentation to reflect changes from
   the Pandas-GBQ library version 0.4.0. Adds intersphinx mapping to Pandas-GBQ
   library. (:issue:`20564`)
+- :func:`to_hdf` and :func:`read_hdf` now accept an ``errors`` keyword argument to control encoding error handling (:issue:`20835`)
 
 .. _whatsnew_0230.api_breaking:
 

pandas/core/generic.py

@@ -1946,6 +1946,10 @@ def to_hdf(self, path_or_buf, key, **kwargs):
             If applying compression use the fletcher32 checksum.
         dropna : bool, default False
             If true, ALL nan rows will not be written to store.
+        errors : str, default 'strict'
+            Specifies how encoding and decoding errors are to be handled.
+            See the errors argument for :func:`open` for a full list
+            of options.
 
         See Also
         --------