nedit on Ubuntu 8.04 crashing

[Jerry L. Kazdan]

This is a fairly recent problem using NEdit on Ubuntu 8.04.

1. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" (not specifying a file
name) and then use File/Open then NEdit crashes immediately with a
Segmentation fault. The same thing happens if I use either "Save" or
Save As".

2. 1. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" (not specifying a
file name) and then use File/Previous and pick a file, then NEdit works
correctly. But then it crashes if I use File/Save As. But it does not
crash if I use "Save".

3. In a terminal window if I run "nedit" or "ncl" specifying an existing
file modify it then use File/Save As then NEdit crashes immediately. But
it does not crash if I use "Save".

Any hints?

Here is what nedit -V gives:
UTF8 locale not supported.
NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Oct 1 2004, 15:55:40
With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: The X.Org Foundation 10400090
Visual: 32-bit TrueColor (ID 0x85)
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Hope this is easy to fix.

-- Jerry