diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/psrp-utf8.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-utf8.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf04763a121
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/psrp-utf8.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- psrp - Fix issue when dealing with unicode values in the output for Python 2 - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/46998
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
index ff8c5de324b..4a5b53e07fe 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/psrp.py
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ if ($bytes_read -gt 0) {
             # create our own output based on the properties if that is the
             # case+
             try:
-                output_msg = str(output)
+                output_msg = to_text(output)
             except TypeError:
                 if isinstance(output, GenericComplexObject):
                     obj_lines = output.property_sets