Mandarin-style text in System Preferences

[fckgoldsmiths]

I've never had a problem with iMac until now, I've scowered the internet to try and understand why this is happening but I'm finding it pretty hard as i dont really know what is going on.

The only time this mandarin style text occurs is on system preferences when I try to alter something. It doesnt affect usability, its just odd!

Anyone know why?

 

[liya1201]

It's not Mandarin. It's Japanese.

It seemed that you have picked the Japanese as the second preferred language in "Language & Text" pane in System Preferences. My second preferred language is 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) and it showed Chinese in that password window when I tried to alter some setting in System Preferences. It sometime also happened in the password window when I was installing new apps.