note 102370 rejected from function.urlencode by danbrown

[email protected] Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:57:59 -0800
Newsgroups php.notes
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Note Submitter: brownrl at gmail dot com 

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<?= urlencode( utf8_decode( "é" ) ) ?>

This should produce %e9 but instead it produces %E9.

How do we get this to work correctly? I have googled for ages.