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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/reference/mapping/params/ignore-above.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -56,5 +56,5 @@ limit of `32766`.

NOTE: The value for `ignore_above` is the _character count_, but Lucene counts
bytes. If you use UTF-8 text with many non-ASCII characters, you may want to
set the limit to `32766 / 3 = 10922` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
3 bytes.
set the limit to `32766 / 4 = 8191` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
4 bytes.