diff --git a/blender_asset_tracer/bpathlib.py b/blender_asset_tracer/bpathlib.py
index c894a33..0e836e3 100644
--- a/blender_asset_tracer/bpathlib.py
+++ b/blender_asset_tracer/bpathlib.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ or vice versa.
 import os.path
 import pathlib
 import string
+import sys
 
 
 class BlendPath(bytes):
@@ -41,6 +42,22 @@ class BlendPath(bytes):
             raise ValueError("'a / b' only works when 'b' is a relative path")
         return BlendPath(os.path.join(parentpath, self))
 
+    def to_path(self) -> pathlib.Path:
+        """Convert this path to a pathlib.Path.
+
+        Interprets the path as UTF-8, and if that fails falls back to the local
+        filesystem encoding.
+
+        Note that this does not handle blend-file-relative paths specially, so
+        the returned Path may still start with '//'.
+        """
+        # TODO(Sybren): once we target Python 3.6, implement __fspath__().
+        try:
+            decoded = self.decode('utf8')
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            decoded = self.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
+        return pathlib.Path(decoded)
+
     def is_blendfile_relative(self) -> bool:
         return self[:2] == b'//'
 
diff --git a/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/__init__.py b/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/__init__.py
index 363a29c..734fa72 100644
--- a/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/__init__.py
+++ b/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/__init__.py
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ class _Tracer:
         abspath = lib_block.bfile.abspath(relpath)
 
         # Convert bytes to pathlib.Path object so we have a nice interface to work with.
-        # This assumes the path is encoded in UTF-8.
-        path = pathlib.Path(abspath.decode())
+        path = abspath.to_path()
         try:
             path = path.resolve()
         except FileNotFoundError:
diff --git a/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/result.py b/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/result.py
index f65b544..9c2c2d6 100644
--- a/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/result.py
+++ b/blender_asset_tracer/tracer/result.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class BlockUsage:
         """
 
         bpath = self.block.bfile.abspath(self.asset_path)
-        path = pathlib.Path(bpath.decode())
+        path = bpath.to_path()
         if not self.is_sequence:
             if not path.exists():
                 log.warning('Path %s does not exist for %s', path, self)