locale: add role for managing locale

playbooks/core.yml

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   become: true
   become_user: root
   roles:
+    - {role: locale, tags: ['locale']}
     - {role: pacman, tags: ['pacman']}
     - {role: pacoloco, tags: ['pacoloco']}
     - {role: ntp, tags: ['ntp']}

roles/locale/defaults/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+locale_lang: en_US.UTF-8
+locale_gen:
+  - en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
+  - pl_PL.UTF-8 UTF-8

roles/locale/handlers/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+- name: Generate locale
+  changed_when: true
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: locale-gen

roles/locale/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+# community.general.locale_gen gave me mixed results for some reason
+# Sticking with the manual generation for now
+- name: Ensure locale is enabled
+  ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
+    dest: /etc/locale.gen
+    state: "present"
+    regexp: "^{{ item }}"
+    insertafter: "^#{{ item }}"
+    line: "{{ item }}"
+  loop: "{{ locale_gen }}"
+  notify:
+    - Generate locale
+
+- name: Set locale
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    content: "LANG={{ locale_lang }}"
+    dest: /etc/locale.conf
+    mode: 0644