title: About Azure Table Storage Row 1MB Limit, How it counts for UTF8 Code?
body: <p>Lets first quote:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Combined size of all of the properties in an entity cannot exceed 1MB.
    (for a ROW/Entity) from <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/05/10/windows-azure-storage-abstractions-and-their-scalability-targets.aspx" rel="noreferrer">msdn</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>My Questions is</strong>: Since everything is XMLed data, so for 1MB, is 1MB of what, 1MB of ASCII Chars, or 1MB of UTF8 Chars, or something else?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Sample</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Row1: PartitionKey="A', RowKey="A", Data="A"
  Row2: PartitionKey="A', RowKey="A", Data="Ａ"  (this is a UTF8 unicode A)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is Row1 and Row2 same size (in length), or <code>Row2.Length=Row1.Length+1</code>?</p>