Did some experiments today with files created by the Windows Subsystem for Linux and noticed that they create files which have reserved characters by using the SFU remap strategy not the default used by Macs and Linux (the posix or "SFM" mapping) But at least it means if you mount to a windows system which has run the Windows Linux Subsystem you can simply do mount with mount option "mapchars" and the file names should show up fine. See example below (mounted to Windows directory created by WSL): Virtual-Machine:~# ls /mnt/special-file-names 'dirwithtrailingspace ' filewith:colon 'filewith space' 'filewith*asterisk' 'filewith>greaterthan' filewithtrailing. filewithbackslash 'filewith<lessthan' -- Thanks, Steve