<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hello all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I just made a Perl script for parsing large CSV files (with Text::CSV). When I enable Unicode (with the three use uncommented), it took as twice longer time. Is it normal? Is there any way to speed it up? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">#use utf8;</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">#use encoding "utf-8";</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;">#use open
':encoding(utf8)';</span></div></div></body></html>