64 KiB != 64 KB

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• Package Name: azure-data-tables
• Package Version: 12.5.0
• Operating System: macOS 15
• Python Version: 3.12.7

Describe the bug
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/Understanding-the-Table-Service-Data-Model?redirectedfrom=MSDN#property-types states a limit of "64 KiB" for columns, especially for strings and bytes.
But when I try to store 65536 bytes I am answered with

The property value exceeds the maximum allowed size (64KB). [...]

64 KiB = 65,536 bytes
64 KB = 64,000 bytes

So apparently the correct answer is 64 KB and the documentation is wrong.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. generate a payload of 65,536 bytes (or a string of the same size)
2. table_client.create_entity(entity=entity)

Expected behavior
As the response comes from the server this rather seems to be a documentation issue than an issue w/ the SDK.
So the docs should be updated.

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/edit: got the encoding wrong - Table uses UTF-16 - so 65_536 seems to be correct, i.e., 64 KiB, i.e., the docs are correct but the error response is not!

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Actually, my test against Azurite it green but the live thing is not. Might be an issue w/ Azurite.

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Closing in favor of Azure/Azurite#2510