vmhgfs character set

I just tried out vmhgfs to share the the file system of my Mac host to my Gentoo Linux guest. Works fine, except the charset.

If I try to create a file with a german umlaut in the name from within Linux on the shared file system, I get the following:

magnum@vmgentoo /mnt/hgfs/magnum $ cp x xÄ

cp: cannot create regular file `x\304': No such file or directory

If I create the file "xÖ" in MacOS and look at it in Linux then, the umlaut is broken:

-rw-rr 1 magnum magnum 1 Jan  1 11:20 x??

I also tried to set the charset in /etc/fstab like this:

.host:/                 /mnt/hgfs       vmhgfs  defaults,ttl=5,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8  0 0

Also tried iso-8859-1 and ascii, but it had no effect. I wonder that there is any problem, because AFAIK both of the operating systems use UTF8.

Any ideas?

CarlMagnus