I am writing a program that will be using sockets in both java & vb to transmit information. I have already figured out how to connect and send the data, not a prob there. However my issue lies in parsing the data, Java when sending the data seems to be putting out a terminator of some sort prefixed before every character it sends out, it is like this symbol: □ what do I need to do to parse it out? Because it is chopping off the data that is read in my list view.

Example of how the data is sent:
□H□e□l□l□o□ □W□o□r□l□d□!