diff -up nedit-5.6/source/nedit.c.utf8 nedit-5.6/source/nedit.c

--- nedit-5.6/source/nedit.c.utf8	2014-12-28 14:24:24.000000000 +0000

+++ nedit-5.6/source/nedit.c	2015-06-17 07:16:46.184186904 +0100

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static int checkDoMacroArg(const char *m

 static String neditLanguageProc(Display *dpy, String xnl, XtPointer closure);

 static void maskArgvKeywords(int argc, char **argv, const char **maskArgs);

 static void unmaskArgvKeywords(int argc, char **argv, const char **maskArgs);

+static void changeLocaleIfUTF8(void);

 static void fixupBrokenXKeysymDB(void);

 static void patchResourcesForVisual(void);

 static void patchResourcesForKDEbug(void);

@@ -425,6 +426,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)

     /* Save the command which was used to invoke nedit for restart command */

     ArgV0 = argv[0];

+    changeLocaleIfUTF8();

+

     /* Set locale for C library, X, and Motif input functions. 

        Reverts to "C" if requested locale not available. */

     XtSetLanguageProc(NULL, neditLanguageProc, NULL);

@@ -1138,6 +1141,32 @@ static String neditLanguageProc(Display

     return setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL); /* re-query in case overwritten */

 }

+static void changeLocaleIfUTF8(void)

+{

+    char *locale;

+

+    locale = getenv("LANG");

+    if (!locale) {

+        locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);

+    }

+

+    if (locale) {

+        char *ptr;

+

+        ptr = strstr(locale, ".UTF-8");

+        if (ptr) {

+            fprintf(stderr, "nedit: the current locale is utf8 (%s)\n", locale);

+

+            ptr[0] = '\0';

+

+            setenv("LC_ALL", locale, 1);

+            locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, locale);

+

+            fprintf(stderr, "nedit: changed locale to non-utf8 (%s)\n", locale);

+        }

+    }

+}

+

 static int sortAlphabetical(const void* k1, const void* k2)

 {

     const char* key1 = *(const char**)k1;