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How many languages will the official GUI support?
7 mnemonic seed languages will be available for the GUI:
+List of available languages for your wallet's seed:
+0 : English
+1 : Spanish
+2 : German
+3 : Italian
+4 : Portuguese
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Does entropy vary depending on the language of my mnemonic seeds?
I will answer your second question first:
Yes, a longer word list would lead to increased entropy and a shorter list would lead to decreased entropy.
Monero avoids this problem by relying on an ...
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Which characters are allowed in creating a wallet password?
The getchar standard library function is used to read the password from standard input. There is no per character blacklist nor whitelist. This means that any character is accepted. It also means that ...
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Are mnemonic seeds available in multiple languages?
Monero does support arbitrary language seeds.
Currently, several languages are implemented in terms of seed: English, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian. More may be added by ...
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Does entropy vary depending on the language of my mnemonic seeds?
The seed is a reversible transformation of the private keys. Therefore, its entropy is equal to the private key's entropy, which in turn is whatever entropy was used to create it, assuming none was ...
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How do I change the language of the 25 word mnemonic seed in the GUI or CLI?
The GUI languages work as follows. On the first page of the wizard you can select a language. If that particular language also has a corresponding mnemonic seed word list, your mnemonic seed will be ...
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GUI build error about "undefined reference"
This is libunwind. It probably was wrongly detected. In the meantime, you should be able to build by removing libunwind-dev (or similar) from your system.
It might also be that you changed your ...
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What is a good way to go about translating Monero software to other languages?
The Monero GUI is written with the Qt application framework that includes tools for the translation.
As one can expect, translation files are located in the translation folder.
You have to create a ...
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Is there a `--language` flag for cli wallet?
There is none.
This is a good candidate to open a bug on https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/issues. It's also a good first task for a new contributor, and if none pick it up, it'll get done ...
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Are mnemonic seeds available in multiple languages?
Update: in May 2018 (version 0.12), mnemonic seeds are available in the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
English
Esperanto
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Lojban
Portuguese
Russian
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Got some problem on trying to make new GUI wallet translation
I got the problem.
I compared the file content I downloaded and the file on github
there are extra sections start like this
html lang="en" class=" is-copy-enabled is-u2f-enabled"
Then I changed ...
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Are mnemonic seeds possible in right-to-left languages?
It'd be interesting to see if it displays correctly, but the system should be the same. In RTL languages, the display is different, the ordering of letters or glyphs is not changed. The first glyph in ...
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Are mnemonic seeds possible in right-to-left languages?
Whether the language is RTL or LTR isn't really the issue. For example, if we take two words "hello" and "world", the first few letters uniquely identify each word. Even if you reversed the words ...
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How can I change gui wallet display locale/language
When starting monero-wallet-gui, cancel where it ask for wallet password and you can select the language and regional format. selected english, then restart monero-wallet-gui and login.
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getmonero.org have some kind of language system?
I'm not entirely sure how the translations are being handled, but I recommend going to the official Monero forum and maybe posting it in the 'Ideas' section and seeing what the response is.
That ...
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Wallet Portuguese seed words?
You can see the list of Portugese words Monero uses here.
Only the first 4 letters of each word matters (for Portugese). For other languages, it may be 3 or 4. You can test this by restoring from ...
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What is the Chinese translation for "Monero"?
"monero" means "currency" in Esperanto, so traditional Chinese would be:
貨幣 (Huòbì)
Simplified Chinese would be:
货币 (Huòbì)
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Are mnemonic seeds available in multiple languages?
First off, yes, there are multiple languages available.
At this point I am aware of English, Japanese, and Spanish as options.
I believe so, though which ones exactly is likely still up for debate.
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