I didn’t specify a character set in the install of the db tables – my mysql server defaults tables to latin1_swedish_ci which is probably the same for you.
If you have phpmy admin you can change the tables by pasting this into the SQL tab for the wordpress database – change wp_ if you use a different prefix
Will fix this issue for next update too!
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_attendance` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_directory` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_calendar_date` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_calendar_event` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_calendar_category` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_email` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_email_build` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_rota` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_rota_settings` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_smallgroup` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
ALTER TABLE `wp_church_admin_visitors` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;