Encode/Decode string from unix shell

Question

Hi,
I am not sure I'm addressing my question properly, but simply I have a stream where I send commands to a shell and when these commands come back from the input stream they don't mean anything as shown below:
inc show int status | inc |1/7|1/17|1/19|1/^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H$atus | inc show int status | inc |1/7|1/17|1/19|1/1 ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H8|1/6|1/8^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H show int status | inc |1/7|1/17|1/19|1/18|1/6|1/8| ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H1/16|1/15^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hstatus | inc |1/7|1/17|1/19|1/18|1/6|1/8|1/16|1/15| ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H1/13|1/14^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnc |1/7|1/17|1/19|1/18|1/6|1/8|1/16|1/15|1/13|1/14| ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H1/12|1/11^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H17|1/19|1/18|1/6|1/8|1/16|1/15|1/13|1/14|1/12|1/11| ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H1/9|1/10
I am using the utf-8 for encoding...do I need to decode it and how?
Here is part of my code:
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(sess.getStdin(), "utf-8");
writer.write("my string");
writer.flush();
class StreamGobbler implements Runnable {
        InputStream is;
        OutputStream oi;
        String type;
        ResultBean resultBean;
        StreamGobbler(InputStream is, String type, ResultBean returnValue) {
            this.is = is;
            this.type = type;
            this.resultBean = returnValue;
        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8");
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
                String line = null;
                while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    //System.out.println("TYPE[" + type +  "] COMES FROM STD_OUT THREAD: " + line);
                    this.resultBean.addResultLine(line);
                    this.resultBean.addMessage(line);
            } catch (IOException ioe) {
                System.out.println("IOE Exception in StreamGobbler");
                ioe.printStackTrace();
    }Thanks in advance, i never dealt with encoding/decoding text.

Answer 1

kminev wrote:
I am pretty sure it is an encoding issue, I'm not convinced because ^H is the ASCII backspace character. Maybe not as I originally thought just some padding but it looks like some form of formatting done the old fashioned way using control characters.
because if I also send this output in an email format and the email renders it a bit differently, then if I copy and paste the text to html page and render it on the screen it look as it is suppose to be.It's definitely not HTML so this does not seem logical.
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Here are the ios commands I am issuing:
show int status | inc |gi1/2|gi1/3|gi1/5
then I send an empty string to the shell so if there is more prompt I see all the outputted values.
Does that help in any way?
ThanksSorry I can't help.
Bye