With text it's every byte thats a character so I don't think endian-ness plays a role. hmm... endian-ness... :eh:

The only issue I think you'd face is having an ANSI encoded text file instead of an ASCII encoded text file, but this is mostly common between the 'Linux house' and 'Windows house' of which I believe MacOS X would fall into the Linux category.

Not a direct answer, but I doubt that the question was meant to have had one delivered.