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