I'm not sure what you mean, all the encoding tables I have looked at show the e-acute as hex C3 A9 under UTF8?

Sure they do, its perl that must be broken :)

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/c3a9/index.htm
Encodings
HTML Entity (decimal) 쎩
HTML Entity (hex) 쎩
How to type in Microsoft Windows Alt +C3A9
UTF-8 (hex) 0xEC 0x8E 0xA9 (ec8ea9)
UTF-8 (binary) 11101100:10001110:10101001
UTF-16 (hex) 0xC3A9 (c3a9)
UTF-16 (decimal) 50,089
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000C3A9 (c3a9)
UTF-32 (decimal) 50,089
C/C++/Java source code "\uC3A9"
Python source code u"\uC3A9"
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In reply to Re^7: XML:: DOM and Accented Characters by Anonymous Monk
in thread XML:: DOM and Accented Characters by freeflyer

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