Thanks for whoever it was that mentioned the version 1.10.3. I had just uploaded the 1.10.2 to contributions.

What he has now done is remove the sanitizer completely and says "make sure your store uses UTF-8 and properly encoded characters"

So this means that some of my customers will not be using this version for the moment. Their products upload with 1.10.2 but not with 1.10.3. We are talking over 2000 products and fixing all those descriptions is not feasible at this time.

This is not the first time he's played with this so I do not know what it means for the feeds come the 22.

All I know is that asking websites to have everything exactly right from the get go is just not what most of my customers do. So therefore the sanitizer is vital.

He also says he added "improved support for product variants"

so if that's your concern, go for it. I may end up uploading a zen cart version 1.10.2b without the sanitizer changes. Let me know your preferences please.