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bip39: discourage from using localized wordlists
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prusnak committed Dec 21, 2020
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==Wordlists==

* [[bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md|Moved to separate document]]
Since the vast majority of BIP39 wallets supports only the English wordlist,
it is '''strongly discouraged''' to use non-English wordlists for generating
the mnemonic sentences.

If you still feel your application really needs to use a localized wordlist,
use one of the following instead of inventing your own.

* [[bip-0039/bip-0039-wordlists.md|Wordlists]]
==Test vectors==

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