A follow-up on my last comment.

Please note that Wine has a "bug-for-bug" policy when it comes to working with 
the windows API.
See http://wiki.winehq.org/WineFeatures

In other words, if the actual implementation disagrees with the
documentation, then the implementation wins. There is a lot of sense to
this policy, as the end goal is full interoperability, or "Binary
Compatibility" as mentioned on the page I have referenced.

This should be the same with the NTFS-3G driver. If the NTFS
documentation says full POSIX namespace support, but the NTFS
implementation differs, the implementation should win. In our case,
there are characters that are legal in the documentation, even if it is
not Microsoft's documentation, but every known official implementation
of NTFS does not allow full POSIX namespace support.

For the sake of full interoperability, this bug should not be fixed in
individual apps, but in the NTFS-3G code, just like similar issues are
dealt with on a "bug-for-bug" basis in the Wine code.

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Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. "?"; 
question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318625
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