The fancy name could contain arbitrary bytes, in escaped fashion. Before using it, let's validate that this contains only valid UTF-8. (Note that D-Bus might kick us off the bus if we don't ensure everything we send around is UTF-8). (While we are at it, do the same in PID 1, even though it's not that important there) Addresses this issue found by @YHNdnzj: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40367#discussion_r2714614301 Follow-up for: #40367
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