Just to confuse the matters, since my re-install of the OS using the EN-US edition of windows 8 from MSDN, everything has been O.K.
During install time I picked English-UK with UK keyboard layout, and everything works great.
When installing the EN-UK edition from MSDN, the driver "appeared" to present eveything in Chinese. I rebuilt using the EN-US version before anyone suggested changing the language to EN-US.
To me the fault ONLY lies in the EN-UK version of Windows 8 from MSDN. I is definately NOT an Office 2013 issue, as I had the issue with a fresh install on EN-UK Windows 8 without Office 2013 installed. IE showed the issue. Office 2010 seemed to work O.K, but Office 2013 uses the Windows 8 printer interface and showed the same "error" as IE.
I don't know if anyone using EN-UK shop release has the issue or not.