Chinese Characters on my iTunes

Hey Guys
The screen shot above is the image that I get when I open iTunes.  It is a mix of English and Chinese???  This only occurred today as prior it operated as expected.  The selected location is Australia and the language is English.  I don't understand what has happened and what needs to happen to get it back to English.  Please help?

Is this on iTunes For Windows ? If it is then go into Edit > Preferences (control-comma), and at the bottom of the General tab (the first tab on the preferences popup) there should be a language setting e.g. (hopefully my screenshot will show, but there is a bug affecting images on these forums)

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