Hi @Ph_We,
The above issue is to allow encoding to be specified as part of the locale name, permitting the same language to be used in multiple encodings (e.g. Serbian in both Latin and Cyrillic). That was merged and will be included in OJS 3.1.
As for multilingual author names, this is still a priority for us and will be addressed in a future release. It hasn’t been scheduled specifically yet, however.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team