Remove character sanitisation when searching

[mtriff]

Description

Continuation of #879

Disabled character sanitization when searching as this was encoding characters (&,<,>"), which was resulting in options not being retrieved.

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Types of changes

• Chore (tooling change or documentation change)
• Refactor (non-breaking change which maintains existing functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

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• I have added new tests for the bug I fixed/the new feature I added.
• I have modified existing tests for the bug I fixed/the new feature I added.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
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