It's a bit of a chicken/egg thing:

Customers will never search using raw html: a normal customer will enter plain characters, or copy-paste from another site, etc, thus using already-converted symbols.

So, if storeowners were always forced to use already-converted entities, everything would be simple.

But, storeowners assert that they want to be able to enter raw HTML into product names, descriptions, category names, everything. When we took that away in an earlier version (to address this concern you're raising) it resulted in a chaotic backlash, and lots of confusion.

As you already know, there's another discussion on this very topic, which you've already posted in: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....ated&p=1282380



BTW, Lloyd, it's great to see you around these parts again!