Respect encoding when reading binary keyed vectors #3309
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Current implementation fails to read keyed vectors that have iso-8859-1
encoding in the words when encoded in binary format. An example of this
type of a file can be seen in the turkuNLP finnish embeddings:
http://dl.turkunlp.org/finnish-embeddings/finnish_s24_skgram.bin
This file is quite trivial to load by passing the encoding to the vector
loading function. It is also logical that when user asks
KeyedVectors.load_word2vec_format(filename, binary=True, encoding='iso-8859-1')
The library would try to load the file assuming that the matrix is in
binary format and the words are encoded using iso-8859-1 encoding.