diff --git a/pym/calculate/lib/cl_template.py b/pym/calculate/lib/cl_template.py
index 925f7f7..931ec76 100644
--- a/pym/calculate/lib/cl_template.py
+++ b/pym/calculate/lib/cl_template.py
@@ -3189,7 +3189,7 @@ class templateFunction(_error, _warning, _shareTemplate, _shareTermsFunction,
                 elif terms[2] == 'hexcode':
                     replace = value.__repr__()[2:-1].replace('\\u0','\\x')
 
-        replace = replace.decode("UTF-8")
+        replace = replace.decode("UTF-8") if isinstance(replace, bytes) else replace
         textTemplateTmp = textTemplateTmp[:resS.start()] + replace + \
                           textTemplateTmp[resS.end():]
         return textTemplateTmp