diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 525904f51..b7a149231 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-03-13  m. allan noah <kitno455 a t gmail d o t com>
+	* tools/sane-desc.c: remove 8859-1 chars from string cleaner,
+	enforce only printable ASCII on output
+
 2009-03-13  Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>
 	* frontend/saned.c:
 	- Remove unnecessary 'res' variable assignment in check_host()
@@ -10,11 +14,11 @@
 
 2009-03-12  Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>
 	* frontend/saned.c:
-	* Allow host checking to proceed if no local name was found
+	- Allow host checking to proceed if no local name was found
 
 2009-03-12  Ilia Sotnikov <hostcc@gmail.com>
 	* frontend/saned.c:
-	* Use hstrerror (h_errno) instead of strerror(errno) on gethostbyname()
+	- Use hstrerror (h_errno) instead of strerror(errno) on gethostbyname()
 	  errors
 
 2009-03-12  Nicolas Martin <nicols-guest at users.alioth.debian.org> 
diff --git a/tools/sane-desc.c b/tools/sane-desc.c
index ee0f3cbb1..6cdd11a26 100644
--- a/tools/sane-desc.c
+++ b/tools/sane-desc.c
@@ -1981,6 +1981,12 @@ clean_string (char *c)
   while (*c != '\0')
     {
 
+      /*limit to printable ASCII only*/
+      if(*c < 0x20 || *c > 0x7e){
+        c++;
+        continue;
+      }
+
       switch (*c)
 	{
 	case '<':
@@ -1989,12 +1995,6 @@ clean_string (char *c)
 	case '>':
 	  aux = strcat (aux, "&gt;");
 	  break;
-	case '¡':
-	  aux = strcat (aux, "!");
-	  break;
-	case '¿':
-	  aux = strcat (aux, "?");
-	  break;
 	case '\'':
 	  aux = strcat (aux, "&apos;");
 	  break;