diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
index 98820aa73ad9..4998afcb6acb 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp
@@ -1583,6 +1583,7 @@ GDBRemoteCommunicationClient::SendEnvironmentPacket (char const *name_equal_valu
                 {
                     case '$':
                     case '#':
+                    case '*':
                         send_hex_encoding = true;
                         break;
                     default: