diff --git a/src/SFML/System/Utils.cpp b/src/SFML/System/Utils.cpp
index 7150106f6..53acf060f 100644
--- a/src/SFML/System/Utils.cpp
+++ b/src/SFML/System/Utils.cpp
@@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ std::string toLower(std::string str)
 std::string formatDebugPathInfo(const std::filesystem::path& path)
 {
     std::ostringstream oss;
-    oss << "    Provided path: " << path << '\n' //
-        << "    Absolute path: " << std::filesystem::absolute(path);
+    // convert to UTF-8 to handle non-ascii/non-latin1 filenames on windows
+    // cast is required to work in C++20 where u8string is char8_t which can't be printed to char stream
+    oss << "    Provided path: " << reinterpret_cast<const char*>(path.u8string().c_str()) << '\n' //
+        << "    Absolute path: " << reinterpret_cast<const char*>(std::filesystem::absolute(path).u8string().c_str());
     return oss.str();
 }