Comment 22 for bug 136682

I had an NTFS partition on a USB drive, so I could do some tests, although not with Wubi:
The drive mounts automatically with utf support in the live CD. (locale is en_US.utf-8, and if I use "LC_ALL=C ls" I see "??" instead of the utf characters.)

I booted my normal Hardy kernel with break=mount and mounted the ntfs partition manually from the initramfs shell. Whatever locale option I used, I got the same warning as Mads and Álvaro and the utf8-named directories were invisible. I also tried to set the LANG before mounting (as done in /etc/init.d/mountall.sh) with no luck.

I checked that the initramfs has nls_utf8.ko in /lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/nls. Is something else missing for utf8 support? I tried symlinking /usr/share/locale from the Hardy partition but that didn't help. For what and where is ntfs-3g looking?