Microsoft Translator charges me 1000 characters for a 20 character translation
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9729535
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Can someone explain why this is happening? I'm using their TranslationContainer sample they've provided.
This strikes me as wrong; if I'm translating lots of small pieces of text I'm going to be changed per translation rather than against my quota of characters.
Can someone explain what's happening here
解決
As of today, this is how the Translator service usage is measured. The default transaction length is 1,000 characters.
EDIT 3/18/2012: I reached out to the team and heard back: You are getting the proper number of characters per month, per subscription details, but the counter display isn't reliable at the moment. A fix is coming. I don't have an exact date for the fix.
EDIT 5/17/2012: Looks like this has been fixed. There's also a blog post about real-time updates to remaining characters per month, as well as low-balance notifications:
