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 #### Content limits
 
 DockerHub has content limits.
-The readme content is limited to 25,000 bytes, and `short-description` is limited to 100 characters.
+The readme content is limited to 25,000 bytes, and `short-description` is limited to 100 bytes.
 This action truncates content to prevent the request being rejected.
 If the content has been truncated a warning will be issued in the run log.