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 @dianakhuang, could you review this?
Why do we need to offer up defaults? I don't see how/where we're using it here.