The thing is ID3v1 ONLY supports the latin charset, so if Android only support V1 it wont be able to display Cyrillic (Russian) Chinese ectera.
Some applications actually use a different charset to encode languages such as Cyrillic, then rely on playing application to work out that the characters are purporting to be Cyrillic , but this is non-standard and doesnt work very well.
But this post
Track numbers and media players........ seems to imply that actually ID3v23 is supported just not ID3v24, so if thats the case using v23 would be the solution.