diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/yaml-lint.yml b/.gitea/workflows/yaml-lint.yml
index f828b2868..cc64dd32d 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/yaml-lint.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/yaml-lint.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ jobs:
             echo "$file was changed"
           done
       - name: Check presence of non-unicode characters
+        continue-on-error: true
         run: |
           for file in ${{ steps.changed-files.outputs.changed_files }}; do
             if LC_ALL=C  grep --color='auto' -P -n "[^\x00-\x7F]" $file &>/dev/null; then
@@ -60,10 +61,9 @@ jobs:
               failed_job=true
             fi
           done
-          # To be uncommented later
-          # if [ "$failed_job" = true ] ; then
-          #   exit 1
-          # fi
+          if [ "$failed_job" = true ] ; then
+            exit 1
+          fi
       - name: Install yamllint
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update