Embodiments disclosed can provide a simple, singular programmatic interface for application developers to access and manipulate ASCII and non-ASCII file specifications in a cross-platform development environment regardless of operating system encoding capabilities or of the nature of the original file...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US20100146493?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20100146493 - METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT FILE SYSTEM INTERACTION
