2020-11-05 05:46 PM
2020-11-06 12:06 AM
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