🚀 go-pugleaf

On someone's X terminal (NCD) here and maybe some other machine, I get M-x
<char> sequences inserted as \370<char>.  This is annoying, I'd really like
to use meta as a meta-key (of course I can use ESC).  Toggling meta-flag
doesn't do anything.  All other meta- sequences do this too; If I press
M-C-a, \201 is inserted as text.

The odd thing is that when I press M-x, "M-x" appears in the minibuffer
area, though not the cursor, as if it were a prefix character.

Anyone experienced something similar?

This is with nemacs 3.3 (based on Emacs 18.55) running in its own window,
though I don't think that matters.  I use this same nemacs on a sun without
problems; it is only manifested on the Xterminal.

thanks,
  -todd