No wonder - CDE predates the Unicode standard.
Official port builds perfectly with incorrect massage for starting . It was not properly tested before porting. But still mikael.urankar's port was not able to find a proper review and thus porting/place. Out of nostalgia some dev might work on unix open motif and make out of it better than gtk & qt.the "official" port doesn't work properly, but the one created by @acheron perfectly works. That's the one I have built before from GitHub.
Well, currently after building and installing the official port, it has to be tweaked to work.Official port builds perfectly with incorrect massage for starting . It was not properly tested before porting.