On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> One problem I have with NTFS-3g is its unwillingness to display files
> with funny characters in their names.  In my case, I have several music
> directories whose names were created by some CD ripping tool and contain
> non-ascii characters.  On Windows these directories appear fine, but on
> Linux with NTFS-3g the directories appear empty.  In the system log I
> see these messages:
> 
> Feb 12 21:14:12 alohomora ntfs-3g[3530]: Skipping unrepresentable filename
> (inode 3432)
> 
> Eventually, I found the entry in the FAQ[1], but it didn't exactly help.
> In /etc/fstab there is a mount option: "nls=utf8", which sounds
> plausible but wasn't working.  I ran locale -a, as suggested by the FAQ
> and picked out en_US.utf8 and tried mounting the device with
> "locale=en_US.utf8" added to the options.  This was rejected with:
> 
> % sudo mount UUID=AC5C6ACB5C6A8FBE /media/sda7 -o
> defaults,umask=007,gid=46,show_sys_files,locale=en_US.utf8
> 
> [17212311.936000] NTFS-fs error (device sda7): parse_options(): Unrecognized
> mount option locale.

This is the kernel ntfs driver, not ntfs-3g.
 
> then I tried nls=en_US.utf8 and that failed with:
> 
> [17212322.260000] Unable to load NLS charset en_US.utf8
> [17212322.260000] NTFS-fs error (device sda7): parse_options(): NLS character
> set en_US.utf8 not found.

This is also the kernel driver. 

It seems your uuid support is configured to use the ntfs kernel driver, not 
ntfs-3g.
 
        Szaka

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