If your diacritical marks/characters are Unicode — check your Mac's Character Viewer — then they should transfer over. I've rarely had the problem when transfer texts from web pages/sources in Firefox; for me it usually involves trying to transfer such via Gmail.
(A similar thing happens in FTM and Gmail: When I try to separate words or sentences with 2 spaces, FTM and Gamil change it to a single space.)

I think you're screwed, but others more knowledgeable about the underpinnings can probably be more helpful.