**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** - PAN files come in either a utf-8 or Borland Pascal format - Currently read_panond works for utf-8 format but not Borland Pascal - Is there any interest in a Real48 extension to the read_panond function that is in iotools? **Describe the solution you'd like** - A function which would read the Real48 format PAN file into a python dictionary **Describe alternatives you've considered** - We could not support the Borland Pascal format **Additional context** - I don't think that there are any papers that we could reference, but there is this CASSYS implementation: https://github.com/CanadianSolar/CASSYS/blob/b5487bb4e9e77174c805d64e3c960c46d357b7e2/CASSYS%20Interface/DatabaseImportModule.vba#L4