diff --git a/IPython/utils/_process_posix.py b/IPython/utils/_process_posix.py
index 6afb9fa..ab4b127 100644
--- a/IPython/utils/_process_posix.py
+++ b/IPython/utils/_process_posix.py
@@ -147,13 +147,17 @@ class ProcessHandler(object):
             # can set pexpect's search window to be tiny and it won't matter.
             # We only search for the 'patterns' timeout or EOF, which aren't in
             # the text itself.
-            child = pexpect.spawn(self.sh, args=['-c', cmd], encoding=enc)
+            #child = pexpect.spawn(pcmd, searchwindowsize=1)
+            try:
+                child = pexpect.spawn(self.sh, args=['-c', cmd], encoding=enc)  # Pexpect-U
+            except TypeError:
+                child = pexpect.spawn(self.sh, args=['-c', cmd])                # Vanilla Pexpect
             flush = sys.stdout.flush
             while True:
                 # res is the index of the pattern that caused the match, so we
                 # know whether we've finished (if we matched EOF) or not
                 res_idx = child.expect_list(patterns, self.read_timeout)
-                print(child.before[out_size:], end='')
+                print(py3compat.cast_unicode(child.before[out_size:], enc), end='')
                 flush()
                 if res_idx==EOF_index:
                     break
@@ -169,7 +173,7 @@ class ProcessHandler(object):
             try:
                 out_size = len(child.before)
                 child.expect_list(patterns, self.terminate_timeout)
-                print(child.before[out_size:], end='')
+                print(py3compat.cast_unicode(child.before[out_size:], enc), end='')
                 sys.stdout.flush()
             except KeyboardInterrupt:
                 # Impatient users tend to type it multiple times