Feature Request: render ANSI escape sequences option

[jtmoon79]

tl;dr when viewing capture output that includes ANSI color escape codes or escape sequences, I only see the binary data which is difficult to read; it'd be great if Notepad3 would render the text as would happen in a shell console

background

In the github CI, I run test programs that output ANSI escape sequences. For example, output of cargo nextest to test my rust program. When a CI Step fails, I often download the log files from github. Viewing the log file with Notepad3, the log is difficult to read because the escape sequences are not rendered.

I see this text

2025-12-30T08:42:01.7673773Z �[31;1m        FAIL�[0m [   0.258s] (1664/3364) �[35;1msuper_speedy_syslog_searcher�[0m �[36mtests::pyrunner_tests::test_PyRunner_stdout_stderr_run_many_times�[0m�[36m::�[0m�[34;1mloops_1_pipesz_1�[0m

Feature

Maybe Notepad3 could offer a checkbox option in the View menu, like Render ANSI escape sequences.

It would be far more readable if the log file text was rendered with the colors of the escape sequences, like this

Then my github-downloaded log files would be much more readable.