I have non English characters showing up.

This morning I wanted to make a change in my Security & Privacy settings and when prompted to authenticate the dialogue box contained non-English characters.  Even the OK button appeared to be in Chinese are the like.
Any ideas welcome.  OS X 10.8.1

I'ts not all of the text though.  It's just the authentication popup that asks you for your password when you want to unlock the padlock to make changes. It comes up with "System Preferences" then two lines of non-english characters followed by "Type your password to allow this".  Then of course you have the Name and Password text fields.  The Cancel button is normal and the what would normally be the OK button, is in non-english text.
Everything else system-wide is fine.
It's got me...

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