Blockstream / Blockstream/green_ios
Add support for importing non-english recovery phrases
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Description
Hello,
Currently Green does not support importing of non-english BIP39 recovery phrases. There are currently [9 non-english](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md) BIP39 word lists available with more [coming soon](https://github.com/p2w34/wlips). 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](https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenix/pull/233) (WIP)
* [BlueWallet](https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/pull/4667)
Once enough wallets support importing of non-English recovery phrases, an effort should be made to then support generating of them too.
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