diff --git a/ratbagd/ratbagd-profile.c b/ratbagd/ratbagd-profile.c
index 454d2aa9..3aa92c81 100644
--- a/ratbagd/ratbagd-profile.c
+++ b/ratbagd/ratbagd-profile.c
@@ -382,8 +382,15 @@ ratbagd_profile_get_name(sd_bus *bus,
 {
 	struct ratbagd_profile *profile = userdata;
 	const char *name = ratbag_profile_get_name(profile->lib_profile);
+	_cleanup_free_ char *asciiname;
 
-	CHECK_CALL(sd_bus_message_append(reply, "s", name));
+	/* This should really be a UTF8 check and it should really be in
+	 * libratbag, but for now this will do to at least not kick us off
+	 * the bus. https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/issues/617
+	 */
+	asciiname = strdup_ascii_only(name);
+
+	CHECK_CALL(sd_bus_message_append(reply, "s", asciiname));
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/libratbag-util.h b/src/libratbag-util.h
index 38d51990..8f6a8552 100644
--- a/src/libratbag-util.h
+++ b/src/libratbag-util.h
@@ -116,6 +116,27 @@ snprintf_safe(char *buf, size_t n, const char *fmt, ...)
 	return rc;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Returns a strdup'd string with all non-ascii characters replaced with a
+ * space.
+ */
+static inline char *
+strdup_ascii_only(const char *str_in)
+{
+	char *str, *ascii_only;
+
+	ascii_only = strdup_safe(str_in);
+	str = ascii_only;
+	while (str && *str) {
+		unsigned char c = *str;
+		if (c > 127)
+			*str = ' ';
+
+		str++;
+	}
+	return ascii_only;
+}
+
 #define sprintf_safe(buf, fmt, ...) \
 	snprintf_safe(buf, ARRAY_LENGTH(buf), fmt, __VA_ARGS__)
 
diff --git a/tools/ratbagctl.in b/tools/ratbagctl.in
index 91d2e628..e2a850e3 100755
--- a/tools/ratbagctl.in
+++ b/tools/ratbagctl.in
@@ -522,7 +522,11 @@ def func_profile_get(r, args):
 
 def func_profile_name_get(r, args):
     p, d = find_profile(r, args)
-    print(p.name)
+    # See https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/issues/617
+    # ratbag converts to ascii, so this has no real effect there, but
+    # ratbag-command may still have a non-ascii string.
+    string = bytes(p.name, 'utf-8', 'ignore')
+    print(string.decode('utf-8'))
 
 
 def func_profile_name_set(r, args):