lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm | 3 ---

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
index 65375fad679ed542852f1c53e9a3a686e6c1e963..47408535571c521d545c4d80ac94ae9dfb72e803 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Feed.pm
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ 	DATEFMT => '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', # Atom standard
 	MAX_PER_PAGE => 25, # this needs to be tunable
 };
 
-use Encode qw/find_encoding/;
-my $enc_utf8 = find_encoding('UTF-8');
-
 # main function
 sub generate {
 	my ($ctx) = @_;