Index: solid/solid/backends/hal/halstorageaccess.cpp
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--- solid/solid/backends/hal/halstorageaccess.cpp	(revision 860627)
+++ solid/solid/backends/hal/halstorageaccess.cpp	(working copy)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <QtGui/QWidget>
 
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 
 #include "halfstabhandling.h"
 
@@ -272,6 +273,16 @@
         }
     }
 
+    // pass our locale to the ntfs-3g driver so it can translate local characters
+    if ( m_device->property("volume.fstype").toString()=="ntfs-3g" && halOptions.contains("locale=") ) {
+        // have to obtain LC_CTYPE as returned by the `locale` command
+        // check in the same order as `locale` does
+        char *cType;
+        if ( (cType = getenv("LC_ALL")) || (cType = getenv("LC_CTYPE")) || (cType = getenv("LANG")) ) {
+            options << "locale="+QString(cType);
+        }
+    }
+
     msg << "" << "" << options;
 
     return c.callWithCallback(msg, this,