Strange (arabic) font in Media browser for Aperture

Since a couple of days the media browser (available from iWork applications) shows strange (arabic) description of some of the standard folders of aperture.
I'm not aware of having changed anything or installed font managing software.
Any ideas for help?

Is it the same in all iWorks apps, or only one of them?
I checked, the corrupted text should read: Projects, Photos, Faces, Places.
And if you get the same corruption for all languages (german, english), then probably not the localization strings are wrong, but the framework that tries to access the strings. But I am not sure about where this framework resides, whether it is included in the System Library, the Media Browser, or inside Aperture.
It would be good to know, if other iApps that use the Media Browser have the same problem. Do you have Garageband or iWeb and could try to access Aperture from those ? And could you take some pictures with Photo Booth to see, if you can access these from Keynote or Pages?
And to exclude any wrong preference setting in your user library, try to use the Media Browser with Aperture from a different account.
And to exclude problems from a corrupted Aperture Library create a new Aperture Library with a few simple images and see ift the problem persists.
If the wrong strings occur only with Aperture I would reinstall Aperture.
If the problem occurs independent of all this I would recommend to reinstall the system.

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