set default language variant according to the http-accept-language header

diff --git a/includes/User.php b/includes/User.php
index 19b51a5..12d62ca 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/User.php
+++ b/includes/User.php
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ class User {
                foreach ( $defOpt as $oname => $val ) {
                        $this->mOptions[$oname] = $val;
                }               
+        /* so that new user will have a default 
+           language variant set using info from the http header 
+        */
+        $this->setOption('variant', $wgLang->getPreferredLanguage());
        }
 
        /**