Fix wrong language (i.e. English) being picked instead of detected language in language selector #4624
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Description
Always save detected language to Django language cookie when it does not exist already to avoid falling back on English
Notes
Overload Django
LocaleMiddleware
to use the detected language by the middleware to set the cookie language when it is not present. It lets the front end load the correct value and set it when rendering the language dropdown menu.Moreover, it will update
extra_details.last_ui_language
with correct value to get more accurate statistics.Related issues
Fixes #2313