I use 2 keyboard layouts for English and Arabic. Each time I login I have to switch keyboard to English. Why is it not programmed to accept the characters as location of keys irrespective of chosen langauge?
Is there anyway I can set the password to accept either languages as long as I'm pressing the same keys?
You need to switch your language and enter your password, if you don't want to do that, and you're always using Arabic as primary language, just use Arabic words as your password, I am not sure if there is other OS' or any websites work like that you want.
I am using two language as well and do that everyday
There are a lot of legacy reasons, but the biggest one is that there's no standard for keyboard position. How do you record the position of the letter "D" for example? Is it the 51st key, when counting from left to right, top to bottom? It is on my keyboard, but my keyboard doesn't have a number pad. That means that if I switch keyboards, my whole password changes. How do we interpret that input when we receive it? If we convert it into the written character again, it's the same problem you already have. If we interpret it as key 51, we need an entirely new system for passwords. If we adopt that kind of method on webpages, we need an entirely new standard so all websites know how to interpret it. Some encryption methods involve the user's password as part of generating keys (PBKDF2 for example). How do we set up complexity requirements for it? It gets really complicated, really fast.
The easiest solution I can think of would be to allow a user to have two passwords, one using English (or the operating system's default language) and one using a second language. But if the user changes one and doesn't change the other, you have a real mess, and it wouldn't work for corporate systems that use single sign ons or for the cryptographic functions I mentioned above.
Maybe someone will come up with a solution for multilingual passwords some day, but so far, there are just too many barriers.
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