Beta3 Slower Because Of Full Utf8 Support

[Jon_J]

the main difference between beta1 and beta3 is that utf8 support is more fully implemented in beta3 so you can use other languages other than english (mainly chinese, japanese, korean) across all applications in beta3 whereas in beta1 some worked and some didn't.
however, as a consequence of adding full utf8 support in beta3, beta3 is slightly slower than beta1.

I didn't want to go off topic in the thread this quote came from.
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...ndpost&p=154166
So if I only use English anyways, is there a way to remove full utf8 support and speed up beta 3?
Or is that compiled into the kernel?