Using GIMP in China - Pango-WARNING (recursed)

I'm trying to use GIMP Portable (in English) on computers with Windows in Chinese. When I try to save a file I get the message:

Pango-WARNING (recursed) **: Couldn't load font "[chinese characters] 9" falling back to "Sans 9" aborting...

After clicking (what I assume is) OK I get a runtime error and GIMP closes down...