LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit and accentuated characters

[Nicolas BERCHER <nbercher@yahoo.fr>]

Hi,

I use NEdit all day long to draft ma thesis (LaTeX), I work under 
lenny-sid/KDE (3.5.9) and I use bash under Konsole.

When I write in french, I use to call NEdit this way:
   LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit <file> &
since my locale is LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8.

It works good for a while (I mean I have all characters I need to draft 
in french: à, é, è, ê, ï, etc.) and then it begins to be buggy (in the 
same X session): accentuated characters typed as a two-keys-sequence are 
no more accepted in NEdit.
For example ^+e should display an "ê" but I got an "e" instead, the same 
for ¨+i, I got an "i".

When I restart my KDE session, all things become ok for a while an then 
I fails again...
So what am I doing wrong ?
I also tried with luit:
   LANG=fr_FR luit /usr/bin/nedit <file>
but this does not repair anything (and sometimes introduces strange 
behaviours in my bash sessions).

At least my question would be:
   Is there anything to reset or restart except my KDE session or my 
whole computer to get things working good ?

Thanks a lot !
Nicolas.

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Info:
My NEdit is linked to lesstif2:
$ aptitude show nedit
   Paquet : nedit
   État: installé
   Automatiquement installé: non
   Version : 1:5.5-2
   Priorité : optionnel
   Section : editors
   Responsable : Alexandre Pineau <alexandre.pineau@free.fr>
   Taille décompressée : 1782k
   Dépend: lesstif2, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsm6, 
libx11-6, libxext6, libxp6, libxt6
   Suggère: csh
   Est en conflit: nedit-dmotif, nedit-smotif
   Remplace: nedit-dmotif, nedit-smotif
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combines a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface with the 
thorough functionality and stability
    required by users who edit text eight hours a day. It provides 
intensive support for development in a wide variety of languages, text 
processors, and other tools, but at the
    same time can be used productively by just about anyone who needs 
to edit text.  Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors will 
find NEdit a familiar and     comfortable
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