diff --git a/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/dump30.py b/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/dump30.py
index 40a9bfd4e..471bef4e0 100644
--- a/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/dump30.py
+++ b/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/dump30.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
 from exporta_zope import (br, dump_folder, dump_propriedades, dump_usuarios,
                           get_app, logando_nao_identificados)
 
@@ -6,11 +8,13 @@ def dump_sapl30():
     """Extrai dados do zope de um sapl 3.0, que, ao que tudo indica:
         * não possui a pasta XSLT
         * usa um mountpoint separado para os documentos
+        * usa encoding utf-8 (ao invés de iso-8859-1)
     """
+    destino = '../../../../media'
+    data_fs_path = destino + '/Data.fs'
+    docs_path = destino + '/DocumentosSapl.fs'
+
     try:
-        destino = '../../../../media'
-        data_fs_path = destino + '/Data.fs'
-        docs_path = destino + '/DocumentosSapl.fs'
         app, close_db = get_app(data_fs_path)
         sapl = br(app['sapl'])
         dump_usuarios(sapl, destino)
@@ -22,6 +26,6 @@ def dump_sapl30():
         docs = br(app['sapl_documentos'])
         with logando_nao_identificados():
             dump_folder(docs, destino)
-            dump_propriedades(docs, destino)
+            dump_propriedades(docs, destino, 'utf-8')
     finally:
         close_db()
diff --git a/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/exporta_zope.py b/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/exporta_zope.py
index 80a3e4cdb..695b877f3 100755
--- a/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/exporta_zope.py
+++ b/sapl/legacy/scripts/exporta_zope/exporta_zope.py
@@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ def find_sapl(app):
                 return sapl
 
 
-def dump_propriedades(docs, path):
+def dump_propriedades(docs, path, encoding='iso-8859-1'):
     props_sapl = br(docs['props_sapl'])
     ids = [p['id'] for p in props_sapl['_properties']]
     props = {id: props_sapl[id] for id in ids}
-    props = {id: p.decode('iso-8859-1') if isinstance(p, str) else p
+    props = {id: p.decode(encoding) if isinstance(p, str) else p
              for id, p in props.items()}
     save_as_yaml(path, 'sapl_documentos/propriedades.yaml', props)