diff --git a/changelog/13750(pytest).bugfix.rst b/changelog/13750(pytest).bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..62d2dc7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/13750(pytest).bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+This change addresses an issue in pluggy that occured when running pytest with any pluggy tracing enabled when parametrized values contained surrogate escape characters.
+Before, pluggy attempted to write trace messages using UTF-8 enconding, which fails for lone surrogates. Tracing now encodes lone surrogates with errors="replace" in order
+to ensure that trace logging will not crash hook execution in the future.
diff --git a/src/pluggy/_tracing.py b/src/pluggy/_tracing.py
index f0b36db1..6b471600 100644
--- a/src/pluggy/_tracing.py
+++ b/src/pluggy/_tracing.py
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ def _format_message(self, tags: Sequence[str], args: Sequence[object]) -> str:
 
     def _processmessage(self, tags: tuple[str, ...], args: tuple[object, ...]) -> None:
         if self._writer is not None and args:
-            self._writer(self._format_message(tags, args))
+            msg = self._format_message(tags, args)
+            self._writer(msg.encode("utf-8", "replace").decode("utf-8"))
         try:
             processor = self._tags2proc[tags]
         except KeyError:
diff --git a/testing/test_tracer.py b/testing/test_tracer.py
index c90c78f1..49744aa0 100644
--- a/testing/test_tracer.py
+++ b/testing/test_tracer.py
@@ -75,3 +75,28 @@ def test_setprocessor(rootlogger: TagTracer) -> None:
     log2("seen")
     tags, args = l2[0]
     assert args == ("seen",)
+
+
+def test_unicode_surrogate_handling(rootlogger: TagTracer) -> None:
+    out: list[str] = []
+    rootlogger.setwriter(out.append)
+    log = rootlogger.get("pytest")
+    s = "hello \ud800 world"
+    log(s)
+    assert len(out) == 1
+    assert "\ud800" not in out
+    assert "hello ? world" in out[0]
+
+
+def test_unicode_surrogate_handling_2(rootlogger: TagTracer) -> None:
+    out: list[str] = []
+    rootlogger.setwriter(out.append)
+    log = rootlogger.get("pytest")
+
+    bad = b"\xed\xa0\x80".decode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")
+
+    log(bad)
+
+    assert len(out) == 1
+    assert "\ud800" not in out[0]
+    assert "?" in out[0]