My guess is that your version of Linux is set up to show colorised man pages
and that is why you're getting those wacky escape sequences.
Have a look at the manpage for man. It might indicate how to turn that feature
off.
The ftplugin has an associated syntax file which does the colorizing of the
man pages for vim.
HTH.
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