Archlinux boots with German ISO keyboard layout even though US ANSI is defined

Question

I recently switched from DE-ISO to US-ANSI layout and have an issue across my Archlinux machines that I cannot resolve which is a bit painful as the encryption key expects German layout but my keyboard is US.

Here is what I have tried so far:

Checked that the US keymap is available on my system:

~
❯ localectl list-keymaps | grep -iI "us"

amiga-us
atari-us
br-latin1-us
cz-us-qwertz
is-latin1-us
mac-us
sunt5-cz-us
sunt5-us-cz
us
us-acentos
us1

Changed KEYMAP for the vconsole:

~
❯ cat /etc/vconsole.conf
KEYMAP=us
FONT=lat9w-16

Ensured that the keymap hook comes before the encrypt one in mkinitcpio:

~
❯ grep -iI "hooks" /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file.  The HOOKS control the
# order in which HOOKS are added.  Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
#    HOOKS=(base)
#    HOOKS=(base udev autodetect block filesystems)
#    HOOKS=(base udev block filesystems)
#    HOOKS=(base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems)
#    HOOKS=(base udev block lvm2 filesystems)
#    usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard keymap consolefont encrypt filesystems fsck shutdown)

Rebuilt mkinitcpio for the current Linux kernel:

~
❯ sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 6.0.8-arch1-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
  -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qat_4xxx
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
  -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 6.0.8-arch1-1
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [udev]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [consolefont]
  -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qat_4xxx
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
  -> Running build hook: [shutdown]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful

However, when I boot the system, it fails to decrypt my device and between two encryption attempts I keep hitting random keys to see which keymap is active and it turns out it's still the German ISO layout.

~
❯ uname -a
Linux bunda 6.0.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:14:24 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is there any other location I could have defined that? What else could I check?

Archlinux boots with German ISO keyboard layout even though US ANSI is defined

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