Comment 1 for bug 60032

> codepage=cp852,iocharset=utf8 finally works.
> codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8 also works.
> Note that the iocharset option must be given as well.

Thanks a lot for these hints -- umlauts are converted correctly at my site, at last. Specifying the encoding as 'utf8' instead of 'utf-8' did the trick. However, I still don't get why smbmount didn't complain about the superfluous dash. Actually, it will happily accept even 'utf66' or 'foobar', only to silently ignore it.

I fully agree with you on this matter, Jörg: More sensible defaults could spare some trouble.