How to change encoding?

Hi,

I have an sql query

query = "insert into ....."
qry.CommandText = query
qry.ExecuteNonQuery()

And I want to change encoding in sql query, how can I do that?

huh? What do you mean encoing?

when I insert english text everything is ok, but I want to insert also lithuanian characters. I noticed that dot net by default uses utf-8 and I need this that string would be encoded in windows-1257 encoding, because Sybase DB inserts wrong characters.