Comment 18 for bug 318625

Some good news on this bug. I put up a comment on the NTFS-3G forums and got a very positive reply from Jean-Pierre, one of the lead programmers for NTFS-3G;

I asked...
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Could you please include a switch in NTFS-3G to allow a workaround for this Windows limitation? (i.e. to turn off use of special characters in order to allow compatibility with Windows for the many users who wouldn't have a clue how to re-mount/export their NTFS filesystems using Samba)
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And Jean-Pierre replied...
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This is available in the release candidate advanced ntfs-3g-2010.5.16AR.1, see http://pagesperso-orange.fr/b.andre/advanced-ntfs-3g.html
The option to use is "windows_names", documented in the manual of the said version.
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Hopefully this will help a lot in this area, but it would need to be integrated into Ubuntu by someone cleverer than me...

This can be found on the Tuxera site - http://tuxera.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=763&p=14549&sid=053f5d02fb19e22aeda1019f6225c76d#p14549