[Samba] Wrong charset when mounting WindowsXP shares

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  I solved the problem. Still, the solution is rather puzzling.

  The solution is to mount with -o iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp850.

  The  puzzling part is the code page. The whole idea with Unicode and
  its  UTF-8  implementation  is to remove the need for local codepage
  conversions.  As long as a application/system is using Unicode there
  should  nerve  be a need for codepages other than using Unicode.

  Or have I misunderstood something?

  ~S
  
>   Hello,

>   I don't seem to be able to mount a WindowsXP share with smbmount and
>   get the correct charset. From what I understand Win2000/XP use UTF-8
>   for  SMB  shares,  so I tried to mount with -o iocharset=utf8 but it
>   did  not  make any difference. All extended characters are messed up
>   or truncated.

>   Here is what I found out using filenames with a 'å':

>   When I mount a Windows share with Samba the 'å' becomes \206 when I
>   do ls -b.

>   If I create the file on the Samba share from Windows it becomes
>   \303\245 when I list it with ls -b.

>   when I simply create a file on the local filesystem in Linux it
>   becomes \345.

>   When I browse a samba share that has two filenames, \303\245 and
>   \345 they both show up correct in Windows. Only \303\245 show up
>   correct if I list that file in Apache (which is set to UTF-8).

>   Is not \303\ the UTF-8 prefix?

>   Can someone help me shed the light on this?

>
> http://se.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/unicode.html