diff --git a/src/pcresearch.c b/src/pcresearch.c
index 9ba1227..8002507 100644
--- a/src/pcresearch.c
+++ b/src/pcresearch.c
@@ -186,8 +186,9 @@ Pexecute (char const *buf, size_t size, size_t *match_size,
                  _("exceeded PCRE's backtracking limit"));
 
         case PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8:
-          error (EXIT_TROUBLE, 0,
+          error (0, 0,
                  _("invalid UTF-8 byte sequence in input"));
+          break;
 
         default:
           /* For now, we lump all remaining PCRE failures into this basket.