diff --git a/libmscore/text.cpp b/libmscore/text.cpp
index 42d45fbc57b4..3df522932da9 100644
--- a/libmscore/text.cpp
+++ b/libmscore/text.cpp
@@ -568,15 +568,16 @@ void TextBlock::remove(int column)
             int rcol = 0;
             for (const QChar& c : i->text) {
                   if (col == column) {
-                        if (c.isSurrogate())
-                              i->text.remove(rcol, 2);
                         if (i->format.type() == CharFormatType::SYMBOL) {
                               i->ids.removeAt(idx);
                               if (i->ids.empty())
                                     _text.erase(i);
                               }
-                        else {
-                              i->text.remove(rcol, 1);
+                        else {                              
+                              if (c.isSurrogate())
+                                    i->text.remove(idx, 2);
+                              else
+                                    i->text.remove(idx, 1);
                               if (i->text.isEmpty())
                                     _text.erase(i);
                               }
diff --git a/libmscore/text.h b/libmscore/text.h
index 1435b52a2610..e0a37e7618fc 100644
--- a/libmscore/text.h
+++ b/libmscore/text.h
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class TextFragment {
 
    public:
       mutable CharFormat format;
-      QPointF pos;                  // y is relativ to TextBlock->y()
+      QPointF pos;                  // y is relative to TextBlock->y()
 
       mutable QString text;
       QList<SymId> ids;
diff --git a/mtest/libmscore/text/tst_text.cpp b/mtest/libmscore/text/tst_text.cpp
index 56665d96b20c..caa5b6633640 100644
--- a/mtest/libmscore/text/tst_text.cpp
+++ b/mtest/libmscore/text/tst_text.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ class TestText : public QObject, public MTest
       void testCompatibility();
       void testDelete();
       void testReadWrite();
+      void testBMPDeletePreviousChar();
+      void testSMPDeletePreviousChar();
+      void testMixedTypesDeletePreviousChar();
       };
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -186,6 +189,17 @@ void TestText::testSpecialSymbols()
       text->insertText("&gt;");
       text->endEdit();
       QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString("&amp;gt;"));
+
+      text->selectAll();
+      text->deleteSelectedText();
+      text->insertText("&&");
+      text->moveCursorToEnd();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->endEdit();
+      QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString("&amp;"));
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->endEdit();
+      QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString(""));
       }
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -417,6 +431,75 @@ void TestText::testReadWrite() {
       testrw(score, text);
 }
 
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+///   testBMPDeletePreviousChar
+///    text contains Basic Multilingual Plane unicode symobls
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+
+void TestText::testBMPDeletePreviousChar()
+      {
+      Text* text = new Text(score);
+      text->initSubStyle(SubStyle::DYNAMICS);
+
+      text->setPlainText(QString("⟁⟂⟃⟄"));
+
+      text->layout();
+      text->startEdit(0, QPoint());
+      text->moveCursorToEnd();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->endEdit();
+
+      QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString("⟁⟂⟃"));
+      }
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+///   testSMPDeletePreviousChar
+///    text contains Supplementary Multilingual Plane unicode symbols (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Supplementary_Multilingual_Plane) which store chars in pairs
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+
+void TestText::testSMPDeletePreviousChar()
+      {
+      Text* text = new Text(score);
+      text->initSubStyle(SubStyle::DYNAMICS);
+
+      text->setPlainText(QString("𝄆𝄆𝄆𝄏𝄏𝄏"));
+
+      text->layout();
+      text->startEdit(0, QPoint());
+      text->moveCursorToEnd();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->endEdit();
+
+      QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString("𝄆𝄆𝄆𝄏𝄏"));
+      }
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+///   testMixedTypesDeletePreviousChar
+///    text contains unicode symbols from both Basic and Supplementary Multilingual Plane chars and SMUFL symbols
+//---------------------------------------------------------
+
+void TestText::testMixedTypesDeletePreviousChar()
+      {
+      Text* text = new Text(score);
+      text->initSubStyle(SubStyle::DYNAMICS);
+
+      text->setXmlText("<sym>cClefSquare</sym>𝄆<sym>repeatLeft</sym><sym>textBlackNoteLongStem</sym><sym>textBlackNoteLongStem</sym><sym>noteheadWhole</sym> ⟂<sym>repeatRight</sym> 𝄇");
+      text->layout();
+      text->startEdit(0, QPoint());
+      text->moveCursorToEnd();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->deletePreviousChar();
+      text->endEdit();
+      QCOMPARE(text->xmlText(), QString("<sym>cClefSquare</sym>𝄆<sym>repeatLeft</sym><sym>textBlackNoteLongStem</sym><sym>textBlackNoteLongStem</sym>"));
+      }
+
+
+
+
 QTEST_MAIN(TestText)
 
 #include "tst_text.moc"