Opening terminal in applescript changes input to Japanese

When I try to use Applescript to open terminal, it opens it but changes the input language to Japanese, so anything that I attempt to feed into terminal via applescript turns into nonsense Japanese.
The default language is English
How do i stop this?
Thanks

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