Unicode - need to keep it in english

I have a program that's in english. Everything needs to stay in english. A few of my users have secondary language packs such as chinese installed. When they run my program and the program populates textboxes with data saved in a config file, it's all garbled. When they turn off that language option, the text looks fine...

I need all users to run one version that works by displaying the english characters whether or not they have a secondary language pack.

I ran across a message thread here that mentioned this for writing and writing:

VB Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim barTemp() As Byte
    barTemp = Text1.Text
    Open "unicode.txt" For Binary As #1
        Put #1, , barTemp
    Close #1
End Sub
 
Private Sub Command2_Click()
    Dim barTemp() As Byte
    ReDim barTemp(FileLen("unicode.txt") - 1)
    Open "unicode.txt" For Binary As #1
        Get #1, , barTemp
    Close #1
    Text1.Text = barTemp
End Sub

Is this what I want? I've found tons of making VB6 work for many languages but nothing for "make it only work for one language."

Thanks