Hi, The examples I have seen so far appears to use ASCII name for AliasName I am considering providing AliasName in languages like Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Tamil, does Boost DLL allow for wstring/UNICODE as AliasName ? Cheers -- Nicholas Yue Graphics - Arnold, Alembic, RenderMan, OpenGL, HDF5 Custom Dev - C++ porting, OSX, Linux, Windows http://au.linkedin.com/in/nicholasyue https://vimeo.com/channels/naiadtools