Troubles typing in password with non-english keyboard

Hi guys,
I have a trouble typing in my password. I have set up cze keyboard so if I want to type in numbers I need to hold down shift button. This works when I'm in the OS but when want to log in or sometimes when I dwnld apps, I have to do it without holding dwn shift button, and since characters are not appearing it's freaking confusing. I dunno whether I typed in wrong pass or I should be pressing the shift button. I don't have to tell you how annoying this is..
Do you have any suggestions please?
Thx

Yes you are right, this is not a bug, it's just bad user interface. Just imagine the following scenario...
Writing a paper, switching to Greek to enter a couple of characters and leaving the mac idle for 5 mins.
The lock screen comes up asking for a password, unfortunately the user didn't change the language
before the mac was left idle and there is no option to change the language in the lock screen.
User has to hard reset to access the mac and let's hope that the user was saving his paper frequenlty.
So from a coding point of view this is not a bug, but from a user interface design it is a huge flaw

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