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+# vi: ts=4 expandtab
+#
+#    Copyright (C) 2011 Canonical Ltd.
+#    Copyright (C) 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+#
+#    Author: Scott Moser <scott.moser@canonical.com>
+#    Author: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hp.com>
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, as
+#    published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+import cloudinit.util as util
+import os.path
+import subprocess
+import traceback
+
+
+def apply_locale(locale, cfgfile):
+    if os.path.exists('/usr/sbin/locale-gen'):
+        subprocess.Popen(['locale-gen', locale]).communicate()
+    if os.path.exists('/usr/sbin/update-locale'):
+        subprocess.Popen(['update-locale', locale]).communicate()
+
+    util.render_to_file('default-locale', cfgfile, {'locale': locale})
+
+
+def handle(_name, cfg, cloud, log, args):
+    if len(args) != 0:
+        locale = args[0]
+    else:
+        locale = util.get_cfg_option_str(cfg, "locale", cloud.get_locale())
+
+    locale_cfgfile = util.get_cfg_option_str(cfg, "locale_configfile",
+                                             "/etc/default/locale")
+
+    if not locale:
+        return
+
+    log.debug("setting locale to %s" % locale)
+
+    try:
+        apply_locale(locale, locale_cfgfile)
+    except Exception as e:
+        log.debug(traceback.format_exc(e))
+        raise Exception("failed to apply locale %s" % locale)