russian case-insensitive regexp search not working

[alexander lunyov <lan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, friends.

OS FreeBSD 6.2, Postgresql 8.2.4

Postgresql does not search case-insensitive russian regexp unicode 
patterns. Postgres is working under user pgsql with login class (in 
/etc/login.conf):

postgres:\
    :lang=ru_RU.UTF-8:\
    :setenv=LC_COLLATE=C:\
    :tc=default:

In .profile of postgres user:

LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
export LANG
CHARSET=UTF-8
export CHARSET

Then, database:

db=> \encoding
UTF8

Case insensitive search for low-cased pattern show nothing:

db=> select street from people where street ~* 'зелен';
 street
--------
(0 rows)

While there are records, but they are with first capital character:

db=> select street from people where street ~* 'Зелен';
     street
----------------
 Зеленая
 Зеленоградская
(2 rows)

Search for english values work fine, russian values not. Why could it be?

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alexander lunyov
lan@xxxxxxxxxxxx