Allow changing of language preference from profile page

This adds profile API functions for handling the fetching and updating of user preferences, a language selection form to the profile page, new JS to process the form's submission, and modifies the profile views to handle this new functionality. Also includes a handful of small tweaks to make things more consistent.

@wedaly and @stephensanchez, could you review this?
This is going to modify the `defaults` dictionary, which may lead to unexpected behavior.  Maybe make a copy to be safe?