to_tsvector: error with italian configuration

Hi all, I was looking into PostgreSQL’s full-text search but when
using the to_tsvector function with italian settings I get this error:

test=> select to_tsvector('italian','prova');
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc3
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not
match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by
"client_encoding".

whereas using english works fine:

test=> select to_tsvector('english','prova');
to_tsvector
-------------
'prova':1
(1 row)

Danish’s fine too, but not french (same error). All the .stop files
(italian, french, and danish) are utf8-encoded but maybe it doesn’t
matter, I just don’t know.

I’m using the 8.3 version with Mac OS X 10.5.3 (pg server) and Mac OS
X 10.4.11 (psql client).

Thank you
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Giorgio Valoti