Improve the punctuation of the Polish welcome message

[gszy]

Make use of Unicode characters like proper quotation marks, em dashes,
no‑break spaces and non‑breaking hyphens.

[gszy]

Cc: @RicoElectrico

[matkoniecz]

what was changed here with this space?

[gszy]

I have changed the normal ASCII space to the Unicode U+00A0 no‐break space. In Polish it is common to use this character after single letter conjunctions (“a”, “i”, “w”, etc., in some cases even after multi‐letter ones, like “na”) to prevent them from appearing at the end of the text line alone. That is, on a narrow screen, this would be preferred:

Witamy
w OpenStreetMap

over this:

Witamy w
OpenStreetMap

You may be unable to copy this character from GitHub web interface, since your web browser may silently replace it with a normal space.

[matkoniecz]

Looks OK to me. Only this space changes seems weird to me.

[matkoniecz]

Note: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID_editor_walkthrough link can be replaced with https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pl:Samouczek_edytora_iD link - now available in Polish (in this PR or the next one)

[RicoElectrico]

Thanks @gszy @matkoniecz - do you have any suggestion of a plain text editor that helps use nbsp and typographical punctuation?

[matkoniecz]

No idea. Usually I ignore both and rather take steps to disable typographical support. One of first things that I do with a text editor configuration is to keep them from replacing - with dashes and em-dashes etc.

[gszy]

do you have any suggestion of a plain text editor that helps use nbsp

Anything KTextEditor‐based as well as Neovim seem to highlight them by default:

gedit highlights nbsps in a special way if highlighting of all spaces is enabled:

mcedit shows the character code in top right (160 or 0xA0 in this case):

and typographical punctuation?

I think this one depends on your font, for example in Hack U+002D hyphen-minus, U+2010 hyphen, U+2013 en dash, U+2014 em dash all have distinct shapes, though only the last one is really easy to recognize at small font size.

An en/em dash as well as an nbsp are quite easy to type on the default Polish Linux keyboard.

replacing - with dashes and em-dashes etc.

I wouldn’t call it a nice feature for a plain text editor on a general purpose operating system…