in reply to Control::CLI, SSH, Garbage Characters, & Prompt

if you take the copyright symbol as esc those look like vt100 terminal control sequences.
http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm
"Set Attribute Mode <ESC>[{attr1};...;{attrn}m"

http://search.cpan.org/~lstevens/Control-CLI-2.03/lib/Control/CLI.pm
"By default no terminal type is defined which results in TELNET simply not negotiating any terminal type while SSH will default to 'vt100'. Once a terminal type is set via this method, both TELNET and SSH will negotiate that terminal type. Use an empty string to undefine the terminal type."

$obj = new Control::CLI ( <br>... <br>[Terminal_type => $string,] <br>... );

try Terminal_type           => '', in the connect new Control::CLI