Error 101 when saving event with emoticon in description

Edited an event on frontend. Text in description included an emoticon (unicode u+1f60a).

When I saved I encountered an error: "This page could not be found".

I had to redo the event and this time omitted the emoticon (description was mostly copy/pasted from an email)

Error description without stack trace:
Exception: Problem saving event (1727796600) : Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x8A</...' for column 'description' at row 1 in /var/www/klitta.dk/public_html/components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalEventDetail.php:303

PHP Version : 8.2.20

MySQL Version : 8.0.37-29

Server Information : Linux linux238.unoeuro.com 3.10.0-962.3.2.lve1.5.85.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Apr 18 15:18:36 UTC 2024 x86_64

*** CONFIG NOT SAVED*** 

Fix jQuery? : Yes

Load JEvents Bootstrap CSS? : No

Max Input Vars ? : 5000

Club code set? : No  

User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0  

Joomla : 4.4.8

component_com_jevents : 3.6.83

component_com_comprofiler : 2.9.3

module_mod_jevents_cal : 3.6.83

module_mod_jevents_custom : 3.6.83

module_mod_jevents_filter : 3.6.83

module_mod_jevents_latest : 3.6.83

module_mod_jevents_legend : 3.6.83

module_mod_jevents_switchview : 3.6.83

plugin_actionlog_jevents : 3.6.83

plugin_content_jevents : 3.6.83

plugin_finder_jevents : 3.6.83

plugin_installer_jeventsinstaller : 3.6.83

plugin_search_eventsearch : 3.6.83

plugin_system_gwejson : 3.6.83