Hi All,
 
While trying to finish my Complex Product's General Information, I kept getting the "Product Features has
exceeded maximum of 4000 characters" error.
 
When I checked the character count of the text in the Features text field, it showed that the text had about 2500 characters, much less than the limit of 4000 characters. However the above mentioned error remained.

Then I removed all Bold highlighting style from the text - and the text was accepted.

It seams that the character counter in Complex Product is counting character in HTML tags as well ("<strong></strong>" for Bold). Similar might go for other HTML tags ("<p>","<br>","<div>"...).
 
I assume this is a bug and not intended behavior

There is no length issue now, because I removed almost all bold
high-lightening (I left bold only on headings).

Before, the same text couldn't pass because I applied bold on a lot of the
words in the text.

I tried again to bold some words, I think 30 was enough to make the max
4000 error appear again.

I changed the text by putting bold on more words. Now, try to bold one
or two more words and you'll get the error. (I can not do that myself because the gui wont let me save the text while the error is active)