Problem with accents?

[calford]

Hi,

I ran a test using words with accents and some of them dont return any
data (when the keyword tool does).

café, language: spanish, country: spain returns nothing for the last
12 months using the API.
using the web keyword tool it returns 135,000 for last month.

something i noticed from the returned xml is that the top part shows
the word with the accent

<ns2:keywords>
<ns1:text>café</ns1:text>
<ns1:matchType>BROAD</ns1:matchType>
</ns2:keywords>

but the bottom part shows the word encoded, not sure if that means
anything

<ns2:value>
<Criterion.Type>Keyword</Criterion.Type>
<text>caf&#xE9;</text>
<matchType>BROAD</matchType>
</ns2:value>


the word caffè (notice the different accent) does return values. all
countries all languages.



[Jul 16 2010 09:42:41.000000 - INFO] POST /api/adwords/o/v200909/
TargetingIdeaService HTTP/1.1
Host: adwords.google.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: PHP-SOAP/5.3.0, gzip
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Length: 804

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/
envelope/" xmlns:ns1="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/
v200909" xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v200909"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<ns2:RequestHeader xsi:type="ns1:RequestHeader">
<ns1:applicationToken/>
<ns1:authToken>*****</ns1:authToken>
<ns1:developerToken>*****</ns1:developerToken>
<ns1:userAgent>AwApi-PHP-2.1.0-adwords api test</ns1:userAgent>
</ns2:RequestHeader>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns2:get>
<ns2:selector>
<ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/
api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:RelatedToKeywordSearchParameter">
<ns2:keywords>
<ns1:text>café</ns1:text>
<ns1:matchType>BROAD</ns1:matchType>
</ns2:keywords>
</ns2:searchParameters>
<ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/
api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:CountryTargetSearchParameter">
<ns2:countryTargets>
<ns1:countryCode>ES</ns1:countryCode>
</ns2:countryTargets>
</ns2:searchParameters>
<ns2:searchParameters xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/
api/adwords/o/v200909" xsi:type="ns2:LanguageTargetSearchParameter">
<ns2:languageTargets>
<ns1:languageCode>es</ns1:languageCode>
</ns2:languageTargets>
</ns2:searchParameters>
<ns2:ideaType>KEYWORD</ns2:ideaType>
<ns2:requestType>STATS</ns2:requestType>
<ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>KEYWORD</
ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>
<ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</
ns2:requestedAttributeTypes>
<ns2:paging>
<ns1:startIndex>0</ns1:startIndex>
<ns1:numberResults>500</ns1:numberResults>
</ns2:paging>
</ns2:selector>
</ns2:get>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Encoding: gzip
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:42:41 GMT
Expires: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:42:41 GMT
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Server: GSE

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
<ns2:ResponseHeader xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/
adwords/o/v200909" xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/
v200909">
<requestId>53624ba785e54f5b27d0150b6e3f7da5</requestId>
<operations>1</operations>
<responseTime>392</responseTime>
<units>6</units>
</ns2:ResponseHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<ns2:getResponse xmlns="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/cm/
v200909" xmlns:ns2="https://adwords.google.com/api/adwords/o/v200909">
<ns2:rval>
<ns2:totalNumEntries>1</ns2:totalNumEntries>
<ns2:entries>
<ns2:data>
<ns2:key>TARGETED_MONTHLY_SEARCHES</ns2:key>
<ns2:value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xsi:type="ns2:MonthlySearchVolumeAttribute">
<ns2:Attribute.Type>MonthlySearchVolumeAttribute</
ns2:Attribute.Type>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>6</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>5</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>4</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>3</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>2</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2010</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>1</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>12</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>11</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>10</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>9</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>8</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
<ns2:value>
<ns2:year>2009</ns2:year>
<ns2:month>7</ns2:month>
</ns2:value>
</ns2:value>
</ns2:data>
<ns2:data>
<ns2:key>KEYWORD</ns2:key>
<ns2:value xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance" xsi:type="ns2:KeywordAttribute">
<ns2:Attribute.Type>KeywordAttribute</
ns2:Attribute.Type>
<ns2:value>
<Criterion.Type>Keyword</Criterion.Type>
<text>caf&#xE9;</text>
<matchType>BROAD</matchType>
</ns2:value>
</ns2:value>
</ns2:data>
</ns2:entries>
</ns2:rval>
</ns2:getResponse>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

[AdWords API Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting this problem, I am able to replicate it as
well. I'll bring this to the attention of the core engineering team.
The same request without the accent works correctly, so you may want
to remove the accents for now, to get approximate search volume
values.

Best,
- Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team