How do you handle YOUR encodings?

[Robert Brenstein]

>Writing data to a database, how route do you use to determine the encodings?
>
>1)  I don't. My programming environment doesn't support encoding.
>2)  My programming environment handles it automatically.
>3)  I always make sure all data has the same encoding before it goes 
>into the DB
>4)  Depending on the field, I may encode it in different ways.
>

I use 3. For now, anything else is too much trouble one way or the 
other (at least for my purposes).

Robert