I personally don't find the console font not being set in the initrd.img to be such a huge issue, but I definitely NEED the keyboard map to be set there, if only to ensure that I don't go completely nuts whenever trying to rescue a system from within initrd. Honestly, expecting everyone to magically switch mindset to a US keyboard layout to rescue a system, just because someone decided to use a new bootsplash system, is just plain silly. Thus the only half-decent solution really is to split keyboard map and vcons font setting to two different stages.
I personally don't find the console font not being set in the initrd.img to be such a huge issue, but I definitely NEED the keyboard map to be set there, if only to ensure that I don't go completely nuts whenever trying to rescue a system from within initrd. Honestly, expecting everyone to magically switch mindset to a US keyboard layout to rescue a system, just because someone decided to use a new bootsplash system, is just plain silly. Thus the only half-decent solution really is to split keyboard map and vcons font setting to two different stages.