diff --git a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services.dstore/miners/org/eclipse/rse/internal/dstore/universal/miners/command/OutputHandler.java b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services.dstore/miners/org/eclipse/rse/internal/dstore/universal/miners/command/OutputHandler.java
index 1f18e2b952b..73b27b52544 100644
--- a/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services.dstore/miners/org/eclipse/rse/internal/dstore/universal/miners/command/OutputHandler.java
+++ b/rse/plugins/org.eclipse.rse.services.dstore/miners/org/eclipse/rse/internal/dstore/universal/miners/command/OutputHandler.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2011 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  * David McKnight   (IBM)     [302996] [dstore] null checks and performance issue with shell output
  * David McKnight   (IBM)     [309338] [dstore] z/OS USS - invocation of 'env' shell command returns inconsistently organized output
  * David McKnight   (IBM)     [312415] [dstore] shell service interprets < and > sequences - handle old client/new server case
+ * David McKnight   (IBM)     [341366] [dstore][shells] codepage IBM-1141 has faulty display of \ character
  *******************************************************************************/
 
 package org.eclipse.rse.internal.dstore.universal.miners.command;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
 import org.eclipse.dstore.core.model.Handler;
+import org.eclipse.dstore.internal.core.model.IDataStoreSystemProperties;
 
 /**
  * The OutputHandler class is used to listen to a particular output or error stream, 
@@ -74,7 +76,13 @@ public class OutputHandler extends Handler {
 
 		_encodings = new ArrayList();
 		String system = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase(); //$NON-NLS-1$
-
+		
+		// use special encoding first if it exists
+		String specialEncoding = System.getProperty(IDataStoreSystemProperties.DSTORE_STDIN_ENCODING);
+		if (specialEncoding != null) {
+			_encodings.add(specialEncoding);
+		}
+		
 		if (system.startsWith("z")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
 			_encodings.add("IBM-1047"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 			/*
@@ -82,11 +90,6 @@ public class OutputHandler extends Handler {
 			 * _encodings.add("UTF8");
 			 */
 		} else {
-			String specialEncoding = System
-					.getProperty("dstore.stdin.encoding"); //$NON-NLS-1$
-			if (specialEncoding != null) {
-				_encodings.add(specialEncoding);
-			}
 			_encodings.add(System.getProperty("file.encoding")); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		}