The server's LC_CTYPE locale

Hello

Im got the following error when the query string was one of the Hebrew
chars:

SELECT upper('ש');
ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale
HINT: The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the
database encoding.

after few minutes while gathering info i stoped getting the previous
error and started to get:

#SELECT lower('ש');
ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xf9

# SELECT upper('ש');
ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xf9

#SELECT version();
PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3
(Debian 4.0.3-1)

#show lc_ctype ;
he_IL.utf8

#SHOW SERVER_ENCODING;
UTF8

Any ideas what the problem ?

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