diff --git a/Controllers/CoolerMasterController/CMKeyboardController/CMKeyboardV2Controller.cpp b/Controllers/CoolerMasterController/CMKeyboardController/CMKeyboardV2Controller.cpp
index 3f2fe9da..94872349 100644
--- a/Controllers/CoolerMasterController/CMKeyboardController/CMKeyboardV2Controller.cpp
+++ b/Controllers/CoolerMasterController/CMKeyboardController/CMKeyboardV2Controller.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include "CMKeyboardV2Controller.h"
 #include "LogManager.h"
+#include "StringUtils.h"
 
 CMKeyboardV2Controller::CMKeyboardV2Controller(hid_device* dev_handle, hid_device_info* dev_info) : CMKeyboardAbstractController(dev_handle, dev_info)
 {
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ std::string CMKeyboardV2Controller::_GetFirmwareVersion()
     }
 
     std::u16string usFirmwareVersion(reinterpret_cast<const char16_t*>(cVersionStr+8));
-    std::string sFirmwareVersion(usFirmwareVersion.begin(), usFirmwareVersion.end());
+    std::string sFirmwareVersion(StringUtils::u16string_to_string(usFirmwareVersion));
 
     LOG_VERBOSE("[%s] GetFirmwareVersion(): [%s]", m_deviceName.c_str(), sFirmwareVersion.c_str());
 
diff --git a/StringUtils.cpp b/StringUtils.cpp
index c6ce5795..c1805cbb 100644
--- a/StringUtils.cpp
+++ b/StringUtils.cpp
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ std::string StringUtils::wstring_to_string(const std::wstring wstring)
     return(converter.to_bytes(wstring));
 }
 
+std::string StringUtils::u16string_to_string(const std::u16string wstring)
+{
+    std::wstring_convert<std::codecvt_utf8_utf16<char16_t>,char16_t> converter;
+
+    return(converter.to_bytes(wstring));
+}
+
 const std::string StringUtils::remove_null_terminating_chars(std::string input)
 {
     while (!input.empty() && input.back() == 0)
diff --git a/StringUtils.h b/StringUtils.h
index 4c730590..f69bb65d 100644
--- a/StringUtils.h
+++ b/StringUtils.h
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@ class StringUtils
 public:
     static const char* wchar_to_char(const wchar_t* pwchar);
     static std::string wstring_to_string(const std::wstring wstring);
+    static std::string u16string_to_string(const std::u16string wstring);
     static const std::string remove_null_terminating_chars(std::string input);
 };