O.K., got it, although the solution was not that obvious:

1. The options for directory listing are greyed out by default – they are only used for SCP and not for SFTP.

2. There is no option to make ls ignore the language setting anyway.

3. Solution in my case was to use force /bin/bash as shell so that the unsetting of LANG variables works again.

Thanks!

meyergru wrote:

For now, I have to resort to changing the language setting for my user - or is there anything else I could do to make it work?

Please read documentation. If that does not help, come back.

I always get a directory listing error:



My Linux account uses LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" and a shell setting of /bin/tcsh.

Because of this, a directory listing starts like this:



The problem seems to be the first line reading "insgesamt 234" instead of the usual "total 234".

WinSCP tries to avoid other languages by doing this:



However, with tcsh or csh being the standard shell, a simple "unset LANG" does not do the trick. One has to use "unsetenv LANG" instead.

Another solution would be to simply ignore the first word on the first line if the line contains exactly two words. I assume the relevant info is the number of files. And guessing from the error message, it is not even needed anyway. Otherwise, the first line could not be mistaken for a directory entry.

For now, I have to resort to changing the language setting for my user - or is there anything else I could do to make it work?


Regards