Hi to all,
I have a pc with Slackware 12.1 and Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit with Service Pack 1.
To mount ntfs partitions I use ntfs-3g 1.2712. My problem is that I can't display properly 2 directories in the ntfs partition, which have the trademark symbol (™): File de La Battaglia per la Terra di Mezzo™ II and File de Il Signore degli Anelli™ – L'Ascesa del Re Stregone™, which are the Italian version of Battle For Middle-Earth II and Battle For Middle-Earth II – The Rise Of The Witch King.
I see directories so:

File de La Battaglia per la Terra di Mezzoâ□¢ II

File de Il Signore degli Anelliâ□¢ - L'Ascesa del Re Stregoneâ□¢

I mount the ntfs partition with this locale option: it_IT.utf8 and those incomprehensible characters (â□¢) appear in place of ™.

I also tried to install openSUSE 11.0 and with this distribution I can see the 2 directories properly. So I tried to use the openSUSE mount options with Slackware, but it doesn't work. Probably Slackware lacks some package on the fonts or maps of characters, but what?
Did anyone has this problem and succeeded to resolve it?

Thanks for the help,

Scorpion77

The option for mounting ntfs with utf8 support is "nls=utf8" I think.
Try that one, without the "it_IT" in it.

I tried with option nls=utf8 but it doesn't work. I made many tests with various mount options, here they are:

FIRST TEST

Mount options: ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=it_IT.utf8 0 0

Result: I can see the directories but with incomprehensible characters

The content of /var/log/messages regarding ntfs-3g:

Aug 8 14:48:28 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:28 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:45 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:45 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:45 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:45 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 69973): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 70030): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 111386): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 69973): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 70030): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 14:48:52 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 111386): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

SECOND TEST

Mount options: ntfs-3g nls=utf8 0 0

Result: I can't see the directories with trademark symbol

The content of /var/log/messages regarding ntfs-3g:

Aug 8 15:09:06 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 69973): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:09:06 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 70030): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:09:06 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 111386): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:10:14 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:10:14 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:10:14 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:10:14 darkstar ntfs-3g[2737]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

THIRD TEST

Mount options: ntfs-3g locale=it_IT@euro 0 0

Result: I can't see the directories with trademark symbol

The content of /var/log/messages regarding ntfs-3g:

Aug 8 15:14:57 darkstar ntfs-3g[2736]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:14:57 darkstar ntfs-3g[2736]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:14:57 darkstar ntfs-3g[2736]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89815): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
Aug 8 15:14:57 darkstar ntfs-3g[2736]: Skipping unrepresentable filename (inode 89880): Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

FOURTH TEST

Mount options: ntfs-3g locale=it_IT.utf8 0 0

Result: I can see the directories but with incomprehensible characters

The content of /var/log/messages regarding ntfs-3g:

No content regarding ntfs-3g

The last test shows as if it were all right, in fact there are no errors in the file /var/log/messages, but it doesn't work.

I did it! Finally I solved this problem.
I made a mistake with the Italian localization of 3 files:

/etc/profile.d/lang.csh
/etc/profile.d/lang.sh
/etc/profile

In the file lang.csh I set: setenv LANG it_IT.utf8
In the file lang.sh I set: export LANG=it_IT.utf8
In the file profile, I set: export LANG="it_IT.utf8"