Forcing a US keyboard is more difficult for some physical keyboards than others. A keyboard like QWERTZ is still relatively similar, but AZERTY is already quite different. Especially if one wants to use special characters ($, +, [ etc) for the password, most keyboard layouts do not match at all.
This is indeed the cause of the problem - complex passwords and disk encryption. People are being encouraged to use both.
Also, partitions may be decrypted from an already running system, where logically the keyboard layout is already set to the own keyboard.
One solution proposed more to illustrate the absurdity of the problem is that encryption software and other password systems could warn users, when they are creating their passwords, of any keypresses that they will not be able to recreate when on reboot the o/s lays a US keymap over their 'foreign' keyboard.
Therefore, I think it would be more prudent to change the forcing of a US keyboard in the boot loader rather than forcing everything else to use US as well.
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