Refurbished MacBook air - can't set-up/login due to keyboard layout

Hi,
I received my 'new' refurbished MacBook air today, on going through the initial set up menu, i couldn't connect to wifi, so i skipped this section and clicked through the location selection and keyboard selection - choosing UK for both. I set up the MBA to my external HD using a back up from my old MB.
When i tried to login to the MBA after this i couldn't as my password is in english, and it turns out the language setting is in one that is just symbols (i don't know which). So I can't even log in to the new MBA - and i guess the keyboard language is the reason i couldn't connect to WIFI.
Has anyone got any ideas? Thank you!

Hi Tom thanks for your response.
No it doesn't look like that - it looks like it could be a font or an arabic language - none of the symbols are recognisable as letters.
The e key doesn't work at all, and the enter key appears as a symbol rather than an enter function.
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