diff --git a/src/find/main.rs b/src/find/main.rs
index 1d8787e8..26b4b1de 100644
--- a/src/find/main.rs
+++ b/src/find/main.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,21 @@ fn main() {
     // the downstream software of the standard output stream closes the pipe and triggers a panic.
     uucore::panic::mute_sigpipe_panic();
 
-    let args = std::env::args().collect::<Vec<String>>();
+    let args = std::env::args_os()
+        .map(|arg| match arg.into_string() {
+            Ok(s) => s,
+            // GNU find treats an invalid-UTF-8 argument as a warning and
+            // continues with a lossy conversion (exiting 0), rather than
+            // aborting — so do the same instead of hard-erroring with exit 1.
+            Err(invalid) => {
+                eprintln!(
+                    "find: invalid UTF-8 was found in one of the arguments: {}",
+                    invalid.to_string_lossy()
+                );
+                invalid.to_string_lossy().into_owned()
+            }
+        })
+        .collect::<Vec<String>>();
     let strs: Vec<&str> = args.iter().map(std::convert::AsRef::as_ref).collect();
     let deps = findutils::find::StandardDependencies::new();
     std::process::exit(findutils::find::find_main(&strs, &deps));
diff --git a/src/find/matchers/printf.rs b/src/find/matchers/printf.rs
index 31151db2..5ad13fea 100644
--- a/src/find/matchers/printf.rs
+++ b/src/find/matchers/printf.rs
@@ -152,7 +152,11 @@ impl FormatStringParser<'_> {
 
     fn advance_one(&mut self) -> Result<char, Box<dyn Error>> {
         let c = self.front()?;
-        self.string = &self.string[1..];
+        // Slice off one *character*, not one byte: byte slicing `[1..]` panics
+        // when the next character is multibyte (e.g. a lossy-converted
+        // replacement char from an invalid-UTF-8 argument, or any non-ASCII
+        // character following a `%` directive).
+        self.string = &self.string[c.len_utf8()..];
         Ok(c)
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/test_find.rs b/tests/test_find.rs
index ce223d56..4f43062f 100644
--- a/tests/test_find.rs
+++ b/tests/test_find.rs
@@ -578,6 +578,23 @@ fn find_printf_octal_escape_before_multibyte_char() {
         .stdout_only("\0€\n");
 }
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn find_printf_invalid_utf8_format_does_not_panic() {
+    use std::ffi::OsStr;
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
+    // GNU find treats an invalid-UTF-8 argument as a warning and continues
+    // (exit 0) with a lossy conversion, so the run succeeds and warns on
+    // stderr rather than failing with exit 1.
+    ucmd()
+        .args(&["./test_data/simple", "-maxdepth", "0"])
+        .arg("-printf")
+        .arg(OsStr::from_bytes(b"%\xff|\n"))
+        .succeeds()
+        .stderr_contains("invalid UTF-8");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn find_printf_width_too_large() {
     ucmd()