Add support for importing non-english recovery phrases

[Bosch-0]

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

• Phoenix (WIP)
• BlueWallet

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

[ardier16]

@Bosch-0 thanks for the suggestion!

The Blockstream iOS app does not currently support importing non-English BIP39 recovery phrases. Recovery phrase import/generation is still based on the supported English BIP39 wordlist.

We’ll keep this open as a feature request for non-English BIP39 import support. Generating new non-English recovery phrases would be a separate, broader scope from importing existing ones.