Weird chars at end of line in JTextArea

I am getting these weird characters at the end of the line in JTextArea when I use setText.
I am doing the foll:
//Creation of JTextArea
JPanel p2 = new JPanel(); // for JTextArea and video
displayText = new JTextArea(15,30);
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(displayText);
p2.add(scrollPane);
//Wrapping the lines
// I read the lines from a file, set a text and use foll code to wrap the lines.
setLineWrap(true);
setWrapStyleWord(true);
The text from the file is displayed correctly. But the last line of the para is filled by weird characters like [] ( to complete the line I guess).
Any idea of this strange behaviour?

Hi,
it seems that this text, you have read in, is not plain ASCII-text - perhaps there are some special byte sequences at the beginning of a paragraph, that you will have to filter out during input. Unfortunately that requires in most cases, that you know the basics about that format you want to read in.
You said, you see [ like characters - hm ... ANSI-Sequences start with ESC [ - if you see something like this "[30;41;1m" with a weird char before it, that is an ANSI-Sequence specifying forground-color, background-color and bold for example. Also ESC [ 1m is possible, there are not all parts needed.
If you have found out, which format that is, that your text file has, you can write a subclass of FilterInputStream to filter out these characters during you read it in.
greetings Marsian

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