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# Important Notes
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The Telegram Bot API has a few potentially unanticipated behaviors. Here are a
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few of them. If any behavior was surprising to you, please feel free to open a
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pull request!
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## Callback Queries
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- Every callback query must be answered, even if there is nothing to display to
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the user. Failure to do so will show a loading icon on the keyboard until the
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operation times out.
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## ChatMemberUpdated
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- In order to receive `chat_member` and updates, you must explicitly add it to
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your `allowed_updates` when getting updates or setting your webhook.
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## Entities use UTF16
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- When extracting text entities using offsets and lengths, characters can appear
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to be in incorrect positions. This is because Telegram uses UTF16 lengths
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while Golang uses UTF8. It's possible to convert between the two, see
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[issue #231][issue-231] for more details.
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[issue-231]: https://github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-api/issues/231
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## GetUpdatesChan
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- This method is very basic and likely unsuitable for production use. Consider
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creating your own implementation instead, as it's very simple to replicate.
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- This method only allows your bot to process one update at a time. You can
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spawn goroutines to handle updates concurrently or switch to webhooks instead.
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Webhooks are suggested for high traffic bots.
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## Nil Updates
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- At most one of the fields in an `Update` will be set to a non-nil value. When
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evaluating updates, you must make sure you check that the field is not nil
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before trying to access any of it's fields.
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## Privacy Mode
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- By default, bots only get updates directly addressed to them. If you need to
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get all messages, you must disable privacy mode with Botfather. Bots already
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added to groups will need to be removed and readded for the changes to take
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effect. You can read more on the [Telegram Bot API docs][api-docs].
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[api-docs]: https://core.telegram.org/bots/faq#what-messages-will-my-bot-get
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## User and Chat ID size
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- These types require up to 52 significant bits to store correctly, making a
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64-bit integer type required in most languages. They are already `int64` types
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in this library, but make sure you use correct types when saving them to a
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database or passing them to another language.
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