Sometimes it doesn't help to speak another language
One of my New Year resolutions was to improve my password policy, so I've polished up a routine I have been using for a while that lets me have passwords for different sites that differ from each other according to a regular system.So far, so good, until I tried to log in to Google with my new password, and failed miserably. Turns out I was typing the password in Russian!
The idea is that I won't have to scrabble around in old notebooks to find the password for an e-shop site or forum I visit once in a blue moon, because e-shops or forums will each have a common base plus a distinctive feature based on something unique to them.
This weekend I started on email accounts, and updated my Gmail password according to the system. Today I visited the MODX forum, and replied to a post in the Russian community's area, switching my keyboard to Cyrillic to do that. Going to Google just afterwards, I found I was logged out of my Google account, so tried to log in with my new password. No luck first time: Check the notebook (yes, there's still a notebook!). Indeed, I'm trying to log in to email using the e-shop password system, tsk tsk! Now try with the proper email system. No joy! Sure you capitalized that letter? Yup. Did you truncate the base word in the right place? Maybe, doesn't work either way.
Admit defeat: Click on "Can't access my account" and ask for a password reset. This brings up one of those gruesome CAPTCHA images, so I type in the letters as I see them: flumump or some such. Except it comes up as адгьгьз, 'cos I'm still typing in Cyrillic. And that's why my attempt to enter my new password failed.