Bug#199359: timidity-patches: The sound quality seems to be REMARKABLY reduced
Package: timidity-patches Version: 0.2-1.2 Severity: important Compare for yourself. Here is http://school.ioffe.ru/~rutsky/eee/a.mid (49038 bytes)*, and here http://school.ioffe.ru/~rutsky/eee/serious_lion.mp3 (4974132 bytes, I think something about 800K will be enough for comparison if you do not want to downlad the entire file) is exactly (neglecting the MP3 compression losses) what I got from timidity with this midi file (I had only lowered it by half tone because it is arrangement for my song which was intended to be in D major), with defaultplayback settings (except for the pitch shift) compressed by LAME. I had been using timidity from Debian 2.2 stable release at the time, and it sounded perfectly. Damn, it was the BEST performance of what I got with any software MIDI players I've tried (standard media player that comes with Microsoft Windows [tm] Millenium Edition gave just a funny noise, and Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer built in my soundcard definitely sucks). Now I'm strongly disappointed with the latest changes... [*] This file is copyrighted by Tavu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I think free distribution is permitted (as long as you include this notice along with the file), but do not make any commercial use of it. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux Deemus 2.4.21 #7 SMP Mon Jun 30 02:54:47 MSD 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R Versions of packages timidity-patches depends on: ii timidity 2.11.2-1.4 Software-only MIDI sequencer. -- no debconf information
Bug#226895: dict-freedict-eng-rus: unreadable
Package: dict-freedict-eng-rus Version: 1.1-4 Severity: normal The dictionary entries appear unreadable for me. I cannot detect what codepage they're encoded, and nothing in the documentation can shed some light on this issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux Balto 2.4.24 #6 SMP Wed Jan 7 14:11:17 MSK 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R -- no debconf information
Bug#226904: dict-freedict-eng-rus: copyright file is misformatted
Package: dict-freedict-eng-rus Version: 1.1-4 Severity: minor The text after "Copyright (C) 1999 Horst" in the package's copyright file is misformatted. Apparently line endings were not converted to spacebars in some conversion. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux Balto 2.4.24 #6 SMP Wed Jan 7 14:11:17 MSK 2004 i686 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R -- no debconf information
Bug#226895: dict-freedict-eng-rus: unreadable
> It should be UTF-8 Unicode.
>
> Could you try with that setting ?
This works, thank you. Maybe it's worth to put a note in README.Debian or
something that unlike mueller7, which works fine with dict client in usual
ru_RU.KOI8-R environment (i.e. appears readable), freedict-eng-rus uses
Unicode and users with unreadable output from dict should try using `dictl'
wrapper instead and consult general dictd documentation, to avoid confusion
caused by lack of information in this dictionary documentation?
--- Dmitry Rutsky
