Azure Translator Text API What is the definition of a character

Question

The pricing of the Translator Text API belonging to the Azure Cognitive Services family is based on characters.

But what is the definition of a character?

Some examples:

• Do spaces, punctuation and line breaks count as a character?

This is   ,   a     


test.

• When translating HTML does every character count here including angle brackets, tags, slashes etc.?

<p>This is<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;a
test.</p>

For the sake of completeness: I suppose only the text that is being sent to the API for translation counts (request characters) and not what comes back (response), right?

Answer 1

A letter to an individual. Punctuation. A space, a tab, a markup character, or any other white space character. In Unicode, every code point is specified. Even if you've already translated the same content, this is a repeat translation.