Comment 50 for bug 132357

I also have the same problem, and on hardy I had to build a new ntfs-3g (1.2412) because I need to set my locale (pt_PT.UTF-8) in fstab for all my ntfs partitions, and the version in hardy won't mount as user (check bug #205081).

The output of "locale -a" is:
C
en_AU.utf8
en_BW.utf8
en_CA.utf8
en_DK.utf8
en_GB.utf8
en_HK.utf8
en_IE.utf8
en_IN
en_NZ.utf8
en_PH.utf8
en_SG.utf8
en_US.utf8
en_ZA.utf8
en_ZW.utf8
POSIX
pt_BR.utf8
pt_PT.utf8

And "apt-cache policy language-pack-pt":
language-pack-pt:
  Instalado: 1:8.04+20080415
  Candidato: 1:8.04+20080415
  Tabela de Versão:
 *** 1:8.04+20080415 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

If I don't have a fstab entry, the partitions aren't mounted with the correct locale, and there go the accents out of the window...