Tagged text import issues

I have had some issues with importing tagged text. In my workflow i get some data converted to tagged text, no problems, special characters are also converted to ASCII entities.
Everything works on my machine, but as soon as it is imported on another machine, the special characters are gone.
I have located the issue, that my entities are lowercase (e.g. ë = <0x00eb>), and by making it uppercase (<0x00EB>) it works.
What can be the difference on the machines? Is it an InDesign thing, or is it a CPU thing? The only difference on the machines are that mine is a Mac with intel processor, and the other is a G5.

Oops -- the smiley face in the code should be changed to semicolon close angle (greater than sign). Jim

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