Thanks Mike, I tried replacing the '£' with a different character (actually I just tried a 0 just to be sure) and the default value was still shown.
Also, I've checked a few other of our ads and they are showing with a 25 character headline including a £ sign. Ryan On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:18:01 PM UTC+1, Michael Cloonan (AdWords API Team) wrote: > > Hello Ryan, > > Have you tried replacing the "£" symbol with another symbol, to see if > that works? That symbol (or another in your string) may be counting as > double-width. If you were 1 over due to a double-width character, then > removing any single character may have made it succeed. Unfortunately, we > do not have a published list of which characters count as single- and > double-width, so the only way to be sure is through experimentation. > > Regards, > Mike, AdWords API Team > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:51:51 AM UTC-4, Ryan Gough wrote: >> >> It turns out that the parameter shows if I reduce its size by one >> character (remove a "£") despite the fact that even with the "£" my >> headline was still only 25 chars, the same length as if the default value >> is used. >> >> So i'm still a bit confused as to why the longer parameter doesn't show, >> would be great if anyone had any insight on this! >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> >> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 12:32:11 PM UTC+1, Ryan Gough wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Some of our ads are showing the default value for a parameter, despite >>> the fact that we have sent a value for the parameter. >>> >>> When I pull back the params using AdParamService.Get it shows the params >>> have the correct value that we have sent. >>> >>> The sent value has the same number of characters as the default, so it >>> can't be that it is too long. >>> >>> The campaign is search network only. >>> >>> Any ideas what could be going wrong? >>> >> -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
