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function utf16_urlencode ( $str ) {
        # convert characters > 255 into HTML entities
        $convmap = array( 0xFF, 0x2FFFF, 0, 0xFFFF );
        $str = mb_encode_numericentity( $str, $convmap, "UTF-8");

        # escape HTML entities, so they are not urlencoded
        $str = preg_replace( '/&#([0-9a-fA-F]{2,5});/i', 'mark\\1mark', $str );
        $str = urlencode($str);

        # now convert escaped entities into unicode url syntax
        $str = preg_replace( '/mark([0-9a-fA-F]{2,5})mark/i', '%u\\1', $str );
        return $str;
    }