Very nearly a Nightmare! Be Warned!

[heyapple]

My wife is multi-lingual and uses the international keyboard options in the system prefs to access a few different language keyboards.

Not a problem on my desktop mac but not so on my rMBP...

When I went to wake it up and put in my access code, it refused to accept it - doing a wiggly shake screen thing. My wife (who had just used it) was upset and insisted she had done nothing to it!

We finally figured out that she'd had it on another language keyboard and had let it go to sleep. Thankfully she was able to work out where all the relevant keys were and get into it again, but...

...that was only thanks to the fact that the language was 'Latin Character' based. Another of her languages uses Cyrillic. The implications (sickening) slowly dawned on me and I immediately removed that option from the languages in the tool bar.

If it had gone to sleep with a Cyrillic keyboard, then whatever we tapped into it would have been unrecognisable by my mbp.

My desktop sleeps but I don't use a code to get in, as only family have the use of it, so it's never been a problem until now.

Be warned. I have no idea how to get into a mac if this ever happened.

 

[eawmp1]

How about you all use numeric logins? Aren't the number keys consistent across the languages?

 

[ThE.MeSsEnGeR]

Don't worry about that, turn the international keyboards back on. I also have Arabic along with the English keyboard. Just make sure to turn on this option in System Prefrences -> Users & Groups -> Login Options.

 

[justperry]

Don't worry about that, turn the international keyboards back on. I also have Arabic along with the English keyboard. Just make sure to turn on this option in System Prefrences -> Users & Groups -> Login Options.

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Good catch, it should be on by default, now, if that option is not there and someone else uses the Mac you are in trouble.

 

[heyapple]

Don't worry about that, turn the international keyboards back on. I also have Arabic along with the English keyboard. Just make sure to turn on this option in System Prefrences -> Users & Groups -> Login Options.

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Thanks for that. I've made that change.

 

[Ploki]

Can't you reset the password via apple ID?

 

[adjeff8]

My wife is multi-lingual and uses the international keyboard options in the system prefs to access a few different language keyboards.

Not a problem on my desktop mac but not so on my rMBP...

When I went to wake it up and put in my access code, it refused to accept it - doing a wiggly shake screen thing. My wife (who had just used it) was upset and insisted she had done nothing to it!

We finally figured out that she'd had it on another language keyboard and had let it go to sleep. Thankfully she was able to work out where all the relevant keys were and get into it again, but...

...that was only thanks to the fact that the language was 'Latin Character' based. Another of her languages uses Cyrillic. The implications (sickening) slowly dawned on me and I immediately removed that option from the languages in the tool bar.

If it had gone to sleep with a Cyrillic keyboard, then whatever we tapped into it would have been unrecognisable by my mbp.

My desktop sleeps but I don't use a code to get in, as only family have the use of it, so it's never been a problem until now.

Be warned. I have no idea how to get into a mac if this ever happened.

OMG-Thanks for the warning. I work many months a year in Bulgaria and am sorta learning the Language. I have a Cyrillic keyboard on my iPhone and iPad and I use it often. Glad to know to keep that part of my life away from my RMBP when I get it

 

[Ploki]

OMG-Thanks for the warning. I work many months a year in Bulgaria and am sorta learning the Language. I have a Cyrillic keyboard on my iPhone and iPad and I use it often. Glad to know to keep that part of my life away from my RMBP when I get it

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[ThE.MeSsEnGeR]

Thanks for that. I've made that change.

I'm glad I helped