nedit menu text messed up

["A.R. \(Tom\) Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl>]

Nedit is my favourite GUI editor.  I installed the nedit 1:5.1.1-5 package
(from "testing").  When I run it, it appears with all menu text characters
displayed as small dashed squares, so it is unusable.  I tried removing my
.nedit file, and adding an "nedit*font -..." line to my .Xresources: but
neither did make any difference.

Suggestions?
--
#>!$!%(@^%#%*(&(#@#*$^@^$##*#@&(%)@**$!(&!^(#((#&%!)%*@)(&$($$%(@#)&*!^$)^@*^@)

	Tom "thriving on chaos" Peters
		NL-1062 KD nr 149	tel.    +31-204080204
 			Amsterdam	e-mail  tpeters@xs4all.nl