Blockstream/green_ios

Add support for importing non-english recovery phrases

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Bosch-0 commented

Hello,

Currently Green does not support importing of non-english BIP39 recovery phrases. There are currently 9 non-english BIP39 word lists available with more coming soon. Non-English speakers may find it difficult to deal with English recovery phrases.

Green should support importing of non-English recovery phrases. This would make it more accessible, and interoperable with other wallets.

To give some weight to this issue, 94% of the world's population do not speak English as their first language. 75% of which do not speak English at all. Majority this demographic live in authoritarian countries. These are the people who would find value in using bitcoin.

Wallets supporting importing

Once enough wallets support importing of non-English recovery phrases, an effort should be made to then support generating of them too.