Control: found -1 1.26.1-3+deb12u1
Control: tags -1 + upstream
Confirmed this bug affects 1.26.1-3+deb12u1. So the aforementioned commit caused the problem.
Most Chinese characters are 3 bytes long under UTF-8, and UTF-8 characters can be as long as 4 bytes. So "g_utf8_strlen (title, 2) < 1" will be true if the first character is Chinese.