Multilingual db not served up in appropriate language

The language variant design elements are not showing in the browser. For example, there is a form for German (Germany) and German (Switzerland). If the browser is set to German (Germany) it works fine but not if it’s set to German (Switzerland). The db properties are multi-language with English as the default and French as the sort order and their is a form for which the $Language item = “de-CH”