Safari is downloading pdf files in another language

For some reason Safari has started downloading pdf files in Chinese!  OS is Mavericks.  Adobe Reader is up to latest 11.0.7.  Firefox downloads pdf files in English with no problem!
Is there a system setting or a setting for Safari itself to change this to download pdf files in English?
thanks,
Lisa

Hi, thanks for reply but guess what?  I figured it out!  Stupid Adobe plugins!!!
Deleted both these plugins from Internet plugins:
AdobePDFViewer.plugin
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
Now pdfs download in English!!!
Lisa

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