Hi Esteban, Guille and Everyone, I haven't looked at using FFI much, however it is easy to imagine that different file encoding rules on different platforms will make writing FFI calls more difficult, i.e. some of the different formats are: - OSX uses Mac specific decomposed UTF8 encoding - Windows uses Wide Strings (16 bit Unicode characters) - Linux allows pretty much anything, but precomposed UTF8 is common Believe it or not, I'm still working on getting the FileAttributesPlugin working (file name encoding on Windows being the latest issue - the tests in Pharo need to be extended). Would it be useful for future FFI work to have primitives available which convert file names to and from the various platform specific formats? (Linux is basically a no-op, and Windows could be written in-image, but OSX requires the platform routines to be called). Cheers, Alistair