Option Arrow no longer advances cursor in text

I'm using OS X Mavericks 10.9.1, and rely on keyboard shortcuts a lot. Recently, for some reason, the Option+Left Arrow and Option+Right Arrow have stopped advancing the cursor by word. This used to work in all text controls, and now works in none. Has anyone else encountered this? Has anyone else solved this? I've looked at the keyboard settings and can't find anything that would seem to indicate why this would not be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This seems to be related to having a Unicode Hex Input source set in the Keyboard preferences. A few months back I added this keyboard. Trying to diagnose the issue today I removed that keyboard and my Option+Arrow is working properly now to move the cursor by word.
Interestingly enough, adding that same input source back doesn't cause things to fail. I'm not sure why it wasn't working, or how to completely reproduce it, but if anyone else is having an issue with this check and see if you have the Unicode Hex Input listed as an Input Source. If so, try removing it and see if that fixes the problem.

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