What caused the govee2mqtt Rust crash?

Govee's API switched preset names to Chinese characters (3-byte UTF-8), hitting byte-indexed slicing in camel_case_to_space_separated().

How to avoid Rust UTF-8 panics?

Use .chars() iterator over byte slices ([..1]). Always iterate characters, not bytes.

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