Title: Watch out for soft hyphens when copying coordinates from YouTube Post by: panzerboy on December 13, 2010, 04:23:53 AM If you copy someones coordinates, that they've so graciously provided in YouTube, paste them into notepad first. Sometimes you'll see extra hyphens (minus signs) in the middle of the number string. :fiery: You need to remove these before you paste into whatever fractal rendering software you use. :banginghead: eg in the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtGyTPgEVxw I've entered the co-ordinates in the comments thus. real 1.315,041,114,658,674,416,003,759,646,039,149,873,036,643,513,071,866,441,851,274,784 Imaginery +0.059,492,523,170,183,645,048,087,872,674,177,885,434,642,398,443,040,755,114,686,951 Hidden in these co-ordinates are 'soft hyphens' this is char 0xAD as apposed to the normal hyphen 0x2D (note 0xAD is 0x2D with the top bit set :nerd:). So when you paste into notepad those coordinates look like this. real 1.315,041,114,658,674,416,003,759,646,03-9,149,873,036,643,513,071,866,441,851,2-74,784 Imaginery +0.059,492,523,170,183,645,048,087,872,6-74,177,885,434,642,398,443,040,755,114,6-86,951 :o (I've had to use normal hyphens to show where the soft hyphens are, web programs treat soft hyphens as ivisible windows programs treat them as a valid character). :verysurprised: I think the soft hyphen insertion is either related to 'line continuation' or perhaps as a URL mangling technique to prevent spam. :suspious: |