diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5642137c..581e53a3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -19080,3 +19080,7 @@
 2019-09-02 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
 	* Fixed a bug in the 'pypad' module that caused the DB connection
 	to be opened in 'latin1' mode.
+2019-09-02 Fred Gleason <fredg@paravelsystems.com>
+	* Modified the 'pypad' module so as not to throw a
+	'UnicodeDecodeError' exception when processing a PAD update
+	containing an invalid UTF-8 character.
diff --git a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
index 1835f190..b6a5bdd7 100644
--- a/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
+++ b/apis/pypad/api/pypad.py
@@ -908,8 +908,9 @@ class Receiver(object):
                 c=sock.recv(1)
                 line+=c
                 if c[0]==10:
-                    msg+=line.decode('utf-8')
-                    if line.decode('utf-8')=="\r\n":
+                    linebytes=line.decode('utf-8','replace')
+                    msg+=linebytes
+                    if linebytes=='\r\n':
                         self.__pypad_Process(Update(json.loads(msg),self.__config_parser,rd_config))
                         msg=""
                     line=bytes()