locales - Clarify German variant differences

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Some users don't know about the variants. Note it for the default ones could help. Because of that, our German translation teams get translations to the wrong branch. Swiss German in German default; German formal in informal etc.

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Three German locale native names change in the locale declarations. The changes update the German name, the formal Swiss German name, and the capitalization of “du” in the informal Swiss German name.

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German locale names

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update German locale names wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/pub/locales/locales.php	The German native name becomes “Deutsch (du)”. The formal Swiss German name becomes “Deutsch (Schweiz, Sie)”. The informal Swiss German name changes “Du” to lowercase “du”.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 96559

The changes clarify the displayed names of the German locale variants. No repository constraint or inspected consumer conflicts with those labels, so no merge-blocking risk is identified.

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