Unable to unlock computer due to impossibility to switch between input sources

I cannot unlock my computer after wake up under the following circumstances.
- In System Preferences - Language and Text - Input Sources, I have the following input sources:
    - US
    - Bulgarian
- In System Preferences - Language and Text - Input Sources, I've chosen the "Allow a different one for each document" option
- My shortcut for "select previous input source" is Cmd-Space
- In System Preferences - Security and Privacy - General, I've chosen "Require password 5 seconds after sleep or screen saver begins"
- My password for login is using US layout characters only
- In System Preferences - Desktop & Screen Saver - Hot Corners, I've chosen "Put Display to Sleep" on the lower right corner, others are empty.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Safari and switch to Bulgarian keyboard layout with Cmd-Space
2. Use the trackpad to direct cursor in the lower right corner in order to activate screen sleep
3. Wait 5 seconds for the lock to be engaged
4. Wake up the computer with the trackpad or keyboard and enter your password to unlcok the computer
Result: The password dialog is shaking, suggesting the password is wrong. If I try to change the input source by pressing Cmd-Space, there is a sound heard from the OS X suggesting I am pressing a shortcut which isn't allowed. There's no visual menu to switch between keyboard layouts. I am most probably stuck with the last keyboard layout used on the last open application which is Bulgarian and since my password is in US, I cannot unlock the computer. I need to reset my computer by holding down the power button in order to be able to log in again.
This is the first time I felt my Mac is letting me down. To be honest, I can't understand how such a critical bug has managed to go unnoticed by the quality assurance team at Apple.

Similar probs here as those reported in initial mail of this thread.
OS X 10.9.2.
Two input sources installed.
Both are lattin based. No Cyryllic, nor far East, nor Judish, nor Arabic,....
Simply two lattin based input sources - keyboards.
Even under lattin keyboards there are different key layouts.
I know one possible difference: qwerty and qwertz.
Possibly there are more other layouts than these two.
Lets assume these two input sources, layouts: 1 and 2.
For certain user account the password was set while layout 1 was selected.
Then the user edits some texts, he selects for this keyboard layout/input source 2.
User makes Sleep OS X, or logs off.
Layout 2 keeps to be active.
User wants to unlock the mac.
It is not possible because password is konform with layout 1,
at the time of unlocking however layout 2 is selected.
It is not possible to select the another layout - user can not unlock os x.

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