Thanks Joe, yes I did try that but no difference.
In fact Current user is still in chinese, so copying the settings page itself is in chinese. I’ve tried adding English UK, English Canada, setting them as default. rebooting, going back in to region settings, everything is still chinese. The odd thing is if I install firefox or ccleaner, those menu’s are in english. Any native windows apps like skype or windows menus like control panel are all in Chinese. I have the region set to Canada (though it is in chinese) I used google translate to find the right symbols. There doesn’t seem a way to revert back to Windows 8 either.