Currency symbol errors when setting params

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Neil Kirk

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Feb 21, 2012, 4:24:37 AM2/21/12

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Hi there,

I am getting Content-Length header value was wrong errors when trying to set a price as a parameter insertion text. It works fine with the USD '$' symbol, but it doesn't work with the GBP '£':

my $ad_param1 = Google::Ads::AdWords::v201109::AdParam->new({

adGroupId => $ad_group_id,

criterionId => $keyword_id,

insertionText=>'£1.00',

paramIndex => "1",

});

[21 Feb 2012 08:13:13,180 - INFO ] Outgoing Request:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<SOAP-ENV:Header>

<authToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</authToken>

<developerToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</developerToken>

<userAgent xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">AwApi-Perl-2.5.5|skeniver</userAgent>

<validateOnly xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</validateOnly>

<partialFailure xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</partialFailure>

</RequestHeader>

</SOAP-ENV:Header>

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

</operand>

</operations>

</mutate>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

[21 Feb 2012 08:13:13,498 - INFO ] Incoming response:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soap:Header>

<serviceName>AdParamService</serviceName>

<methodName>mutate</methodName>

</ResponseHeader>

</soap:Header>

<soap:Body>

<rval>

</rval>

</mutateResponse>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

It does seem to work with the EUR '€' when I hard coded it like this:

my $ad_param1 = Google::Ads::AdWords::v201109::AdParam->new({

adGroupId => $ad_group_id,

criterionId => $keyword_id,

insertionText=>'€1.00',

paramIndex => "1",

});

The get_insertionText from the returned params is €1.00.

But when I try pass in a variable, it doesn't work either. The variable is pulled from a database, so maybe there are some encoding issues, but here is the code and logs (the value of $display_price is "€1.00":

my $ad_param1 = Google::Ads::AdWords::v201109::AdParam->new({

adGroupId => $ad_group_id,

criterionId => $keyword_id,

insertionText=>$display_price,

paramIndex => "1",

});

[21 Feb 2012 08:40:56,537 - INFO ] Outgoing Request:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<SOAP-ENV:Header>

<authToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</authToken>

<developerToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</developerToken>

<userAgent xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">AwApi-Perl-2.5.5|skeniver</userAgent>

<validateOnly xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</validateOnly>

<partialFailure xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</partialFailure>

</RequestHeader>

</SOAP-ENV:Header>

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

</operand>

</operations>

</mutate>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

[21 Feb 2012 08:40:56,782 - INFO ] Incoming response:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soap:Body>

<soap:Fault>

<faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>

<faultstring>Unmarshalling Error: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1355]

Message: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. </faultstring>

</soap:Fault>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

I also tried to make sure the $display_price variable was a string by passing it in quote marks:

my $ad_param1 = Google::Ads::AdWords::v201109::AdParam->new({

adGroupId => $ad_group_id,

criterionId => $keyword_id,

insertionText=>"$display_price",

paramIndex => "1",

});

But still get the error:

[21 Feb 2012 09:13:52,672 - INFO ] Outgoing Request:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<SOAP-ENV:Header>

<authToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</authToken>

<developerToken xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">REDACTED</developerToken>

<userAgent xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">AwApi-Perl-2.5.5|skeniver</userAgent>

<validateOnly xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</validateOnly>

<partialFailure xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/v201109">false</partialFailure>

</RequestHeader>

</SOAP-ENV:Header>

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

</operand>

</operations>

</mutate>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

[21 Feb 2012 09:13:52,924 - INFO ] Incoming response:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soap:Body>

<soap:Fault>

<faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>

<faultstring>Unmarshalling Error: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1355]

Message: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. </faultstring>

</soap:Fault>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

I need to be able to set params with '£' and '€' currencies. Please help me with this

Eric Koleda

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Feb 23, 2012, 10:21:44 PM2/23/12

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Hi Neil,

It seems the problem with the requests is incorrect UTF-8 encoding. I'm not familiar enough with Perl to provide language-specific advice, but I wrote up some help material for the PHP client library that may be relevant:

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-adwords-php/source/browse/trunk/README#271

Specifically, you can use XML character entities to represent these special characters, such as € for the € symbol.

Best,

- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team

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