should writing Unicode files be so slow

[Ben Finney]

djc <slais-www at ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I have a simple program to read a text (.csv) file

Could you please:

* simplify it further: make a minimal version that demonstrates the
  difference you're seeing, without any extraneous stuff that doesn't
  appear to affect the result.

* make it complete: the code you've shown doesn't do anything except
  define some functions.

In other words: please reduce it to a complete, minimal example that we
can run to see the same behaviour you're seeing.

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Ben Finney