Why systemdctl output of strange characters

These should be escape characters and should not be displayed

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ST Employee

The escape characters are supposed to provide colored output and bold+italic characters.

It is possible that PuTTY does not recognize them due to different character set or language setup.

I have searched for specific flags to systemctl to disable such "beautified" output, but apparently there are not!

As a workaround you can pipe the output through another command, so systemctl automatically disables the "beautified" output:

systemctl | cat

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