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Description of problem:
Grub on UEFI relies on UEFI function to read keys from terminal. When the keyboard is not a US keyboard, this is an issue: for some reason, I'm not aware of any UEFI firmware that detects the keyboard being used, it's always assumed as US keyboard.
Hence it becomes difficult/impossible to enter a password, for example to be able to edit a Grub entry, for non-US desktop systems:
example, on a fr keyboard: typing 'a' becomes 'q', typing ')' becomes '-'.
In the past, with Grub0.97, there was some "key" command enabling to map keys, something similar should be implemented in Grub2/UEFI as a bare minimum.
Ideally a tool computing the required mapping based on keymap files could be created to automatically populate this key mapping.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2
It appears that the fix is very simple: it's enough to include the following modules into the UEFI build:
keylayouts at_keyboard
Then users can set at_keyboard and load keymaps.