Hi Tim, We've recently updated the help article linked off this page to clarify that the characters are double-width and not double-byte (since single-width characters can be multiple bytes): http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=152058
The determination is made based on the display width of the character, not the number of bytes. This mostly affects CJK languages. See the help page for more details. I've filed a bug to update the documentation on the limits appendix to correctly reflect this change. Thanks for pointing it out. The documentation on the limits page is otherwise correct. - Kevin Winter AdWords API Team -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
