Haiku comes with bits of technology that allows lazy programmers to be lazy and still have their programs be good ones. One of them is the Translation Kit. Merely by including the library and making use of even something as simple as the BTranslationUtils class will help to ensure that at least this portion of your code is free of bugs. In general, you will probably find yourself making use of image translators most in order to load image resources that your program will use. Just remember that translators are system add-ons and that unless your program has installed a translator for a particular file format, depend only on the formats installed by default in the system. As an aside, MP3 is a format which requires licensing for decoding and encoding to be legal, so depending on the MP3 format is not a good idea unless your program deals specifically with it.