So a number of months ago I installed the UTF-8 character set, then installed Google Merchant center feeder. I've never been able to get google to accept my feed because of the errors in my Feed.

The product description on my website the characters are fine, but when the feed is exported to XML I see tons of # symbols in place of bullet points and (R) symbols and stuff. I believe this is why google is rejecting my feed. It happens on probably 50% of my product descriptions. Typically the errors are on product descriptions that contain bullet points or (R) symbols or other non-plane text formatting.

Can someone advise what I may be doing wrong?

I also noticed in "Configeration > Google Merchant Center Feder Configeration > Enable Advanced XML Sanitization > if this is set to False which is default the XML file is not formatted correctly at all, but if its set to True it actually looks like a proper XML file. I examined a friends ZC XML feed which his feed is accepted by google, and he doesn't have any of the random # in place of symbols that I have.

Please advise. Thanks in advance!

-Jason