Our proposed changes for name internationalization are summarized as:
- Discriminate name localization based on script changes
- that is, when installed locales diverge in script types (latin, cyrillic, arabic, etc.), then and only then, multilingual name entry is enabled.
- Clarify “first” and “last” names as “given” and “surnames”. Require only “given” name.
- This means that an institution or an organization would only have a given name, as well as individuals who use mononyms.
- Provide optional fields to customize the display of the name in the event that name ordering is not “Given-name Surname”.
- All users would be able to fill in a field “preferred method for being addressed”
- Authors and reviewers would be able to add a “published name”
- Citation plugins should provide a preview option, and allow the author to change the display of the name within the citation.
You can push other multilingual issues which don’t apply to names to this issue:
https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/1807