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martin

Well, the point is that in WinSCP session the variable is not set. So it's not a problem on WinSCP side. I do not know your system, nor I'm a *nix expert, so I cannot advice you how to properly configure your system to set the variable for all sessions. Sorry.
bjmi

I tried following locations
/root/.bash_profile
/root/.bashrc
/etc/environment
/root/.ssh/rc
but without success. It doesn't detect UTF-8 on Unraid 6.8.2 (Linux 4.19.98-Unraid).

I end up with the global setting to On in winscp.ini 
[Sessions\Default%20Settings]

Utf=1
martin

Re: SCP and auto detection of UTF-8 encoding for filenames

Your LANG variable is probably set for interactive sessions only. You need to fix your startup scripts to set it for all (even non-interactive) sessions.

Typically you need to move the relevant commands from .bash_profile to .bashrc.

This is actually the opposite of this problem:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/message_large_packet
bjmi

SCP and auto detection of UTF-8 encoding for filenames

I haven't encounting problems with directory and filename encoding so far.
But recently it was necessary to change UTF-8 encoding for filenames to "On" instead of the default "Auto" to retain right filenames while copying files to SSH server running Unraid OS using SCP method.
Filenames result in "Gebühr" or "Beitrittserklärung" but should be "Gebühr" and "Beitrittserklärung".

According to
With SCP protocol this means that UTF-8 will be used when a LANG environment variable is set to “UTF-8” encoding.
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login_environment#utf
utf8 should be detected.
LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8. 
root@unraid:~# locale

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_COLLATE=C

LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"

LC_ALL=



root@unraid:~# printenv LANG

en_US.UTF-8

Any ideas why utf8 auto detection doesn't work or do other checks exist that aren't mentioned in FAQ?

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