For a full portability of strings I would convert them into UTF-8, this solves any endianess issue and different local code pages issue. Same for file format. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] Per conto di troy d. straszheim Inviato: sabato 9 agosto 2008 19.56 A: boost-users@lists.boost.org Oggetto: [Boost-users] serializable any Hey, Here's an autoregistering serializable any, I think it qualifies as hacky and suboptimal. Of course the typeid(T).name() strings aren't portable, and the implementation gets a little intimate with the mechanics of registration, but it works... You could make this less intrusive, I suppose, but without the venerable #define private public technique (still one of my all time favorite hacks) I don't think you're going to get it completely nonintrusive. -t ...