diff --git a/src/ConverteExtenso.py b/src/ConverteExtenso.py
index bb729ed..a91d657 100644
--- a/src/ConverteExtenso.py
+++ b/src/ConverteExtenso.py
@@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ def soma(lista):
 
 def simplifica(txt):
 	newToken = ""
+
 	try:
-		newToken = normalize('NFKD', txt.decode('utf-8')).encode('ASCII','ignore')
+		newToken = normalize('NFKD', txt.encode('utf-8').decode('utf-8')).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
 	except:
-		newToken = normalize('NFKD', txt.decode('iso-8859-1')).encode('ASCII','ignore')
+		newToken = normalize('NFKD', txt.encode('iso-8859-1').decode('iso-8859-1')).encode('ASCII','ignore')
 
 	if(newToken[-3:] == "oes"):
 		return newToken[:-3] + "ao"
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