BIP39: Add Arabic Language Support #1925

1. 
   qusaismael commented at 1:32 pm on August 10, 2025: none
2. Add Arabic Language Support 0f3b00700b
3. Add missing two words b6d14fe020
4. murchandamus renamed this:
   Add Arabic Language Support.
   BIP39: Add Arabic Language Support
   on Aug 10, 2025
5. jonatack added the label Proposed BIP modification on Aug 11, 2025
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   1BitcoinBoWP1FZ4xwTNkq6XksKidmgYYw commented at 11:15 am on August 12, 2025: none

   This PR has several issues. First, all the words in arabic.txt are reversed, but Arabic is a right-to-left (RTL) language, so they should appear correctly. Additionally, there are very few (if any) widely used Arabic Bitcoin wallets, making this change of questionable value.

   Furthermore, it’s unclear which variant of Arabic is being used here (e.g., Modern Standard Arabic, a specific dialect, etc.), which could lead to usability problems.

7. 
   jonatack commented at 4:43 pm on August 12, 2025: member

   Thank you @qusaismael for your proposal. Nevertheless, am closing here, as the BIP39 authors no longer support further wordlists except for the English one, in order to maximize interoperability (see #1395 (comment)). Also, per BIP39: “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.” Thanks again.
8. jonatack closed this on Aug 12, 2025

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