Right now I have finished porting miltilingual names feature to OJS 2.4.8.1.
You can get diff on http://shoorick.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/localizing-2481.diff.gz, these changes will appear on github ASAP.
I now that my hack isn’t ideal 
but I hope it will work. Now I test how it works on http://vestnik06.susu.ru
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