v2.8.1
Patch: multibyte guard for venue and extra-info fields
Store the event venue and extra info (dtinfo) as numeric HTML entities (as event titles already are) so multi-byte characters such as £ survive on sites whose postmeta columns are utf8mb3/latin1; values are decoded back to plain text on read. The venue dropdown decodes and de-duplicates so old and new spellings of a name collapse to one option.
Builds on the organizer event-submission feature added in v2.8.