diff --git a/fs/template/tests/checkbm/checkbm.py b/fs/template/tests/checkbm/checkbm.py
index f76c1fc9e52df808a7767a04bd28bec2c9a0ee67..61109b330c13b37230a3d6ab42e733dddce7b90d 100644
--- a/fs/template/tests/checkbm/checkbm.py
+++ b/fs/template/tests/checkbm/checkbm.py
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def check_data(f: TextIOWrapper, ino_ofs: int, ino_blks: int, position: list):
     valid_count = 0
     if not all(byte == 0 for byte in bm):
         res[0] = True
-    if name in bm.decode('utf-8'):
+    if name in bm.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore'):
         res[1] = True
     return res