You are reading a single byte from the InputStream (that's what InputStreams do...). Change it to a *Reader and open it with the correct character encoding, and read chars from the Reader, not bytes. Special characters are typically multiple bytes, and Linux is typically UTF-8 encoding by default, hence your problems.
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