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Zsh History File Encoding Issue with UTF-8 Characters

Issue Description

When opening .zsh_history file via vim, some UTF-8 encoded characters (e.g. Japanese, Chinese characters) are not displayed correctly, and vim shows the fileencoding as latin1 instead of utf-8.

  • For example, the following shows how Japanese/Chinese characters are displayed incorrectly in vim:

    2466 : 1762759121:0;locale
2467 : 1762759501:0;echo "ä½<83><80>好"
2468 : 1762759519:0;echo "ã<81><83>³ã<82><83>³ã<81>«ã<81><83><81>ã<81>¯"

  • The actual content of the .zsh_history file is as follows:

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