On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:43:36AM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I got this.  I haven't investigated.  Replies will need to be copied
> directly.
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 11:49:29 +0900
> From: ıɥɔıɐʇ ɐʇɐqɐʍɐʞ <kawabata.taichi@gmail.com>
> To: <pws@csr.com>
> Subject: ZSH history file VS. UTF-8 data
> 
> 
> Dear sir,
> 
> I'm sorry to disturb you.
> 
> I've been a user of ZSH  for a long time and I really
> appreciate for the developer of this great software.
> 
> Recently, I've got one trouble in ZSH history file, and as I tried to
> solve it by
> surveying Webs and Sources, with no help.  As of it, knowing that this
> disturbs you,
> I'm trying to ask for any help.
> 
> The trouble is as follows:
> 
> When I try to use UTF-8 file name in shell command, ZHS history file
> seems to save
> it with "meta code".
> 
> For example, executing
>  $ ls \346\226\207\345\255\227  (octal expression of "ls 文字”）
> results in histfile
>  $ ls \346\203\266\203\247\2\345\255\203\267
> 
> That is, when 0x80-0x9F characters are used, then always 0x83 Meta
> character is inserted and following character is bit shifted, resulting
> garbage history.
> 
> Any way to avoid this situation?
> 
> Any help is really appreciated,
> 

I met the same problem, and had a look at the zsh source code, attached
is the C program I use to deal with this. However, I have not found an
option to turn this feature off or why the history file is encoded in
this way.

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