mitchellh/vagrant — pull request #693 by sroegner (2012-01-30 17:04:14+00:00)
Title: GH685: make escape code removal configurable

new option is ssh.enable_ansi_colors, currently defaults to true

this is just a proposal for you to look at .. feel free to ignore/change
I successfully tested in my environment (Red Hat and puppet 2.7.x)