Regular expressions w localization problem

I'm facing a problem I have seen before but never got the time to
report until now that is biting me again. I have a table which has
some CHECK constrains using regular expressions and one check is
failing when I try to insert some valid data. The constraint
definition is:

«nombre propio válido» CHECK (nombre ~ '^[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]*([-\'. [:alpha:]]+)?$'::text)

And the data is ``José Luis''. Using a SELECT with the expression and
the data leads true as expected:

masm=# select 'José Luis' ~ '^[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]*([-\'. [:alpha:]]+)?$';
 ?column?
----------
 t
(1 fila)

However when I try to insert one tuple using the same data it fails:

masm=# INSERT INTO persona.persona (nombre, fecha_nacimiento, sexo) VALUES ('José Luis', CAST('1979-06-15' AS date),
'm');
ERROR:  el nuevo registro para la relación «persona» viola la restricción check «nombre propio válido»

Wired. A workaround that used to work was to put the select statement
and then the insert:

select 'José Luis' ~ '^[[:upper:]][[:lower:]]*([-\'. [:alpha:]]+)?$';
INSERT INTO persona.persona (nombre, fecha_nacimiento, sexo) VALUES ('José Luis', CAST('1979-06-15' AS date), 'm');

but it doesn't any more :-(. Btw, this is PostgreSQL 8.0.4, running on
Fedora Core 4.

Best Regards,
Manuel.