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Author Topic: Watch out for soft hyphens when copying coordinates from YouTube  (Read 331 times)
Description: char 0xAD inserted by YouTube into comments corrupt coordinates
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panzerboy
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« 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. head banging wall
eg in the following video
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/VtGyTPgEVxw&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/VtGyTPgEVxw&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

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
 shocked
(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). very surprised

I think the soft hyphen insertion is either related to 'line continuation' or perhaps as a URL mangling technique to prevent spam.  suspious
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