Polish language support

[wojtekmaj]

Please add Polish support and Polish keyboard key bindings (Polish keyboard does not use alt+[letter] for shortcuts as this conflicts with inputting letters like ążółćń).

I'd be happy to help with translations in case you are open to contributions via services like getlocalization.

[roblourens]

I know we've worked a lot on international keyboards, so can you clarify exactly what problem you're having with the polish keyboard?

[wojtekmaj]

@roblourens, there's a lot of trouble when using Polish keyboard and trying to enter Polish diacritic signs. I believe that US keyboard copies some shortcuts like ctrl+s to alt key as well; the thing is, alt+[aceszxnlo] are used for entering letters: ąćęśżźńłó respectively. This results in a conflict and inability to enter said letters.

This is a very common problem with American software in Poland, even Windows 10 Mail and Store app were having it for a while.

The problem with keybindings has already been raised by issues: #14234 #13198 #11090 #9205

Please mind that this request is for Polish language support in general, including the UI, which was not mentioned before on GitHub, I believe.

[Tyriar]

Assigning to @dbaeumer for i18n as the keybindings issues seem to be closed or tracked elsewhere.

[dbaeumer]

@wojtekmaj just to be clear: when pressing alt+e for example VS Code takes you to the main menu bar and opens the edit menu. VS Code doesn't define any keyboard shortcut alt+e for a specific command.

[wojtekmaj]

Actually, that's not correct for my case.

Pressing alt+e creates letter ę for me :) And it works in VSCode as well. The only one not working in VSCode as of now is alt+l that should make the letter ł. Interestingly, capital Ł (shift+alt+l) works fine.