Magento Search Suggestions include ASCII values

Question

I\\’m having an issue in my store website.. whenever users perform a search, the search suggestions include some special characters something like
 , £, etc i guess the search engine does not convert above mentioned keywords into symbolic characters. How do i fix the issue? Please refer to the attached screen shot. Thanks in advance.

I'm using Magento 1.5

Answer 1

Managed to find the solution.. The problem was i was using $this->htmlEscape(strip_tags($_product->getShortDescription())) to populate the date for the search suggestion.. i just wrapped it with the function html_entity_decode() as it allows ASCII values to be visible in a symbolic view. So my final code was html_entity_decode($this->htmlEscape((strip_tags($_product->getShortDescription())))) to fix the issue.