[Rpcemu] Some RPCEmu observations

When my Iyonix stopped working earlier this week, I decided to move as
many things as possible to RPCEmu on my Linux box. I have now managed to
resurrect the Iyo (PSU problem - again), but I intend to keep the RPCEmu
setup up to date, just in case.
While working with the emulator on a daily basis, I noticed a few
things:

- Using a RiscPC keyboard, the ` and ' keys are switched around.
Question: Which part of the source code do I have to change to fix
this?

- Ctrl+End is not a good choice to call up the menu.
I have used this key combination with StrongED for many years and
not being able to use it is more than a minor nuisance.
Question: Which part of the source code do I have to change to fix
this?

- Top bit set characters in filenames can be problematic.
I know, you shouldn't use any, but spaces tend to creep in almost
unnoticed. RISC OS fakes them in filenames by coding them to 160 and
RPCEmu uses the ISO-8859-1 character set while most Linux distros
will be on UTF-8 these days. This can cause problems if you want to
access such a file from Linux.
Question: Is there a way around this?

- Servers running inside the emulator cannot be reached and active FTP
doesn't work.
Not surprising. Would be nice if there was a way around this (maybe
some more iptables magic? need to study this...).

- Networking is unreliable with RISC OS 5.19.
Spurious errors occurred during an AntiSpam session of around 40
messages. The session had to be restarted several times and each time
processing a different message would produce another kind of
nonsensical error. In the end I gave up and switched to RISC OS 4.39,
which worked like a charm.
This is probably more of an RO 5.19 problem than something to do with
RPCEmu, but I thought I would also mention it here for completeness.

Also, is there any chance of the serial port and mouse scrollwheel ever
being made to work?

Details of RPCEmu used: version 0.8.9, recompiler, SA110, 256M.

Regards,
Frank


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