ICloud – Combining diacritic marks don’t work in iCloud Pages

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Here is what it looks like if I type an "e" followed by an acute accent combining character, in macOS Pages (and in most good text editing programs).

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Here's what happens in iCloud Pages.

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I sent something via the "submit feedback" menu item.

Are others seeing this? Is there a fix or workaround? It's too bad. This will force me to Google docs.

I need them for stress marks on Cyrillic characters, so I cannot use the standard Mac dead-key shortcuts.

Safari: 11.1.1. macOS 10.13.5

Best Answer

Looks like a bug. I think to add combining marks to Cyrillic characters you will have to use another app.