Hello Rick, Well, ä is the XML entity escape sequence for the Unicode character 00E4, which is ä. So that's a valid XML representation of that character.
I can't tell you whether the fact that you're seeing the XML entity representation rather than the actual 'ä' character (which should be valid in a UTF-8 encoded XML document) is a problem or not, as there are too many possible places where it might be getting translated--it might be your client code, it might be the server. Ultimately, you should try creating a test ad group in the Production AdWords service and try adding the keyword to that, and then using the https://adwords.google.com/ website to ensure that it displays properly. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 22, 9:55 pm, rickey <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Jeff > The problem is solved somehow, > I got to change some settings in my referance file nusoap.php. > > but know i got another question: > (notice the part marked with ************) > > part of my request: > <criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</ > criterionType> > > ******<text>Akupunkturärztin</text> ***** > > <maxCpc>0</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language> > </criteria> > > part of response I got back from sandbox > <ns5:addCriteriaReturn xsi:type="ns5:Keyword" xmlns:ns5="https:// > adwords.google.com/api/adwords/v12"> > <ns5:adGroupId>5000038615</ns5:adGroupId> > <ns5:criterionType>Keyword</ns5:criterionType> > <ns5:id>10105617</ns5:id> > <ns5:language></ns5:language> > > <ns5:negative>false</ns5:negative> > <ns5:paused>false</ns5:paused> > <ns5:status>Active</ns5:status> > <ns5:maxCpc>200000</ns5:maxCpc> > <ns5:minCpc>410000</ns5:minCpc> > ****** <ns5:text>Akupunkturärztin</ns5:text> ****** > <ns5:type>Broad</ns5:type> > </ns5:addCriteriaReturn> > > my php code: > $criteria = $criterion_service->call('addCriteria', $request_xml); > $criteria = $criteria['addCriteriaReturn']; > > the result in $criteria will display > *******"Akupunktur rzte"***** > > I am wondering if this happen because of sandbox or, i did something > wrong. > coz, my request looks fine to me. > thanks a lot > Best > Rick > > Below is full request content: > > POST /api/adwords/v12/CriterionService HTTP/1.0 > Host: sandbox.google.com > User-Agent: NuSOAP/0.7.3 (1.114) > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8 > SOAPAction: "" > Content-Length: 5429 > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP- > ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema- > instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; > xmlns:ns4881="http://tempuri.org";><SOAP- > ENV:Header><email>[email protected]</email><password>comberry</ > password><clientEmail>[email protected]</ > clientEmail><useragent>comberry</ > useragent><developerToken>[email protected]++cny</ > developerToken><applicationToken>dMhPaT4n0sCAvaYANBUr4w</ > applicationToken></SOAP-ENV:Header><SOAP- > ENV:Body><addCriteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Akupunkteure</ > text><maxCpc>0</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Akupunkteur</ > text><maxCpc>0</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Akupunkturärzte</ > text><maxCpc>100000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Akupunkturarzt</ > text><maxCpc>200000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</ > criterionType><text>Akupunkturärztin</text><maxCpc>200000</ > maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</status><language>de</ > language></criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Akupunktur</ > text><maxCpc>200000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Klassische > Akupunktur</text><maxCpc>200000</maxCpc><type>Broad</ > type><status>Active</status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Traditionelle > Chinesische Medizin</text><maxCpc>200000</maxCpc><type>Broad</ > type><status>Active</status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</ > criterionType><text>Allgemeinmediziner</text><maxCpc>300000</ > maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</status><language>de</ > language></criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</ > criterionType><text>Allgemeinmedizin</text><maxCpc>300000</ > maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</status><language>de</ > language></criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Hausarzt</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Hausärztin</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Praktische > Ärzte</text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Ambulante > Behandlung</text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</ > type><status>Active</status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Altenpfleger</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Altenpflegerin</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Altenpflege</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Pflege</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Pfleger</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Pflegerin</ > text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Selbständige > Betreuung</text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</ > type><status>Active</status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Ganzheitliche > Betreuung</text><maxCpc>300000</maxCpc><type>Broad</ > type><status>Active</status><language>de</language></ > criteria><criteria><adGroupId>5000038615</ > adGroupId><criterionType>Keyword</criterionType><text>Alte</ > text><maxCpc>0</maxCpc><type>Broad</type><status>Active</ > status><language>de</language></criteria></addCriteria></SOAP- > ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 > Transfer-Encoding: chunked > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:33:32 GMT > X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff > Expires: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:33:32 GMT > Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 > Server: GFE/1.3 > > On Jan 23, 4:44 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello Rick, > > > I'm not an expert on how PHP handles UTF-8, but there does seem to be > > a specific method that will convert a string into its UTF-8 > > representation: > > > http://us3.php.net/utf8_encode > > > Have you tried running your $request_xml string through that > > utf8_encode() method before passing it on to the AdWords API? > > > I did just try an estimateKeywordList() request to the Sandbox with > > "Akupunkturärzte" and after I made sure that everything was send as > > proper UTF-8 it did go through. This was in Python, though. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 21, 10:54 pm, rickey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > My request is something like this: > > > <estimateKeywordList> > > > <keywordRequests><text>Akupunkturärzte </text><maxCpc>100000</ > > > maxCpc><type>Broad</type></keywordRequests></estimateKeywordList> > > > and my function is write in php, every file is UTF-8 encoded > > > the function is something like: > > > $estimates = $estimator_service->call('estimateKeywordList', > > > $request_xml); > > > > and it is not possible to use something like <?xml version="1.0" > > > encoding="UTF-8"?> in the request > > > What else should i check. > > > > thanks a lot > > > Best regards > > > Rick > > > > On Jan 22, 11:41 am, rickey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > thanks for the reply > > > > I checked all my related files which is UTF-8 encoded but when i used > > > > the word contains non-english in sandbox > > > > it still not working > > > > Akupunkturärzte for example it works only if i remove the letter ä > > > > from the word > > > > Akupunkturärzte is german word > > > > best > > > > Rick > > > > > On Jan 21, 11:41 pm, AdWords API Advisor > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello Rick, > > > > > > Sure. Just make sure that the characters are properly UTF-8 encoded-- > > > > > that's the important thing, and the step which leads to the most > > > > > issues. Handling UTF-8 encoding is specific to the language you're > > > > > using and sometimes even the editor you use to enter the non-English > > > > > characters. In some combinations of language and editor it should just > > > > > work out of the box, and for others it will require a bit of Googling > > > > > to find the correct pragmas or other options to use to enable UTF-8. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API > > ... > > read more » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. 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