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Can you emulate Windows filesystem case semantics with ntfs-3g?

With NTFS on a Windows machine if you create a directory "ABC" and then try to create a directory "abc" it will be rejected because Windows considers it the same name.

Now on Linux the standard ntfs-3g filesystem doesn't suffer this (NTFS, itself, allows for both... it's just Windows doesn't).

I've found that -t lowntfs-3g -o ignore_case will produce the error, but it does this by forcing everything to lower case. mkdir ABC results in abc.

Is there a way of using NTFS on Linux that follows what Windows would do? Retains the case for display purposes, but acts case insensitive for operations?