Open up a doc or slides. Give focus to the doc. Hold down a key like 'e'. Expect that the OS-provided character picker appears. It doesn't. Hmm. But I see that the touchbar shows the accented chars. Okay, release the 'e' and tap one of the accented chars on the touchbar. Nothing happens. Huh.

Now, for point of comparison, go to some vanilla web page with a text entry field and do the same thing. Notice that the picker appears and works as expected.

My guess: docs and slides are doing some more sophisticated key event grabbing that somehow interferes with the OS-provided character picker. It's kinda frustrating for any mac user who needs to type accented chars (in other words, most of the non-US world).

Apologies if this is a dup. I couldn't find another issue for this. Thanks.