{"id":25601,"date":"2022-10-01T12:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=25601"},"modified":"2022-10-01T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T13:56:18","slug":"linux-filezilla-error-message-a-local-filename-could-not-be-decoded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25601\/linux-filezilla-error-message-a-local-filename-could-not-be-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux: FileZilla error message \u2013 A local filename could not be decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fix LC_CTYPE error message when starting FileZilla.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When starting FileZilla I always got the following error message. After clicking OK, the application started normally, but it was still annoying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"238\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_1.png 451w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_1-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA local filename could not be decoded.<br \/>\nPlease make sure the LC_CTYPE (or LC_ALL) environment variable is set correctly.<br \/>\nUnless you fix this problem, files might be missing in the file listings.<br \/>\nNo further warning will be displayed this session.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25601\/linux-filezilla-error-message-a-local-filename-could-not-be-decoded\/#Video\" >Video<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/25601\/linux-filezilla-error-message-a-local-filename-could-not-be-decoded\/#The_solution\" >The solution<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Video\"><\/span>Video<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D928RirEcrU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_solution\"><\/span>The solution<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>However, the problem can be fixed quite easily. To do this, we edit the link of the application:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo vim \/usr\/share\/applications\/filezilla.desktop\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In the file we look for the following line: <\/p>\n<pre>\r\nExec=filezilla\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Then we replace the line with the following:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nExec=env LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 filezilla\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_2.png 480w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/filezilla_2-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, the application started without any problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fix LC_CTYPE error message when starting FileZilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}