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Add support for importing non-english recovery phrases
Hello,
Currently Samourai 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.
Samourai 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.