diff --git a/openxc/sources/usb.py b/openxc/sources/usb.py
index ca4754b1..aed7aac4 100644
--- a/openxc/sources/usb.py
+++ b/openxc/sources/usb.py
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ def _read(self, endpoint_address, timeout=None,
             read_size=DEFAULT_READ_REQUEST_SIZE):
         timeout = timeout or self.DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT
         try:
-            return str(self.device.read(0x80 + endpoint_address,
-                    read_size, self.DEFAULT_INTERFACE_NUMBER, timeout), 'ISO-8859-1')
+            raw_binary = self.device.read(0x80 + endpoint_address,read_size, self.DEFAULT_INTERFACE_NUMBER, timeout)
+            return str(raw_binary, 'utf-8', 'ignore')   #  Formerly - Causes byte tranlation str(temp, 'ISO-8859-1')
         except (usb.core.USBError, AttributeError) as e:
             if e.backend_error_code in [self.LIBUSB0_TIMEOUT_CODE, self.LIBUSB1_TIMEOUT_CODE, self.OPENUSB_TIMEOUT_CODE]:
                 # Timeout, it may just not be sending