gh-119310: Fix encoding when reading old history file
This fixes the problem reading history files created with previous versions of python (that where using GNU readline). Checks that the file was created by readline and change the encoding to unicode-escape.
- Issue: gh-119310
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Thanks @aorcajo for the PR, and @ambv for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13. 🐍🍒⛏🤖
GH-123784 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch.