Cannot switch pinyin to Russian keyboard

The previous postings in the thread indicate the bug involves both Japanese and Chinese causing problems with at least Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew. So far the only workaround is to use a Latin layout in between. Make sure you use the feedback link to complain to Apple.

Thanks - I've used the feedback page to let Apple know, can only hope that they fix this soon.

Just to expand further, using a Latin script layout in between changes nothing, at least in my case - have to restart and then avoid changing input source to Japanese to be able to type in Russian. So this is, unfortunately, worse than just a case of, say, using Option+Cmd+Space as opposed to Cmd+Space to change an input source - need to restart to get a language back, which is unworkable really.

Here's to hoping Apple will see our feedback and this thread and come up with a solution.

It does, unfortunately. Tried switching inputs after initially switching to Japanese in at least TextEdit, Notes, Safari, Chrome and Messages - no Russian input anywhere. Seems to be a system-wide issue. The Siri trick described earlier in this thread also seems to do nothing, still have to restart to get Russian input back. Just to note, this is only as of 10.13.2, previous versions had no problems at all.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

the bug involves both Japanese and Chinese causing problems with at least Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew.

Further testing indicates it extends to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean causing problem with at least Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek.

Hi! I have same issue: cannot type Russian after switching input from Chinese. It's super annoying bug.

I can type Russian after switching from English (US) and Brazilian Portuguese, but not Chinese Pinyin.

Usually I type Chinese with Sogou Pinyin input, then I tried to delete it and use default Apple pinyin (Chinese) input, but same issue.

I tried to (re-enable and) disable Siri, and its shortcut is set to "off" - didn't help.

Restart/logout - didn't help as well.

Reported to Apple via Feedback form.

I also have this issue. I use Romaji, Hiragana and Russian for text input. But it only switches between Romaji and Hiragana. Even though icon is showing RU, the typing is actually in Latin. It's frustrating... I though it's something wrong with MacBook and started getting crazy.

Now it turns out it is a bug...

Have guys in Apple ever heard of testing before uploading?

We all need to tell Apple to fix it via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Try a safe boot

macOS Sierra: Start up in safe mode

You could also try setting up a new user account and see if you still need to restart when logged into that.

Can you make a picture and insert it in your post, use the little camera icon to include it

Did you do what I suggested regarding Siri?

Could you show us what happens in a program like TextEdit where we can see the font being used?

Where is the "chinese" in your picture?

I have a similar issue.

I find that I can type Arabic or Cyrillic letters with switching the one after Turkish until switching U.S. input.

Yes. It was my misunderstanding.

It works after US.

Anyway I hope this bug will be fixed soon.

I have not heard of anyone else having to restart -- that is something extra and definitely crippling. Does that happen in all apple apps like TextEdit, notes, mail, safari?

Exactly, same thing for me: icon turns to "RU", but the actual input is English, not Russian.