From 83f926758cce83b081fc6b14026bf8bcd0baeeaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Billington <michael.billington@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 21:06:44 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] adjust order in _encode_char to prioritise ASCII; ' ' is used
 in the character list to flag characters with no known UTF-8 code, better not
 encode as these

---
 src/escpos/magicencode.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/escpos/magicencode.py b/src/escpos/magicencode.py
index 764b05f..d48d59d 100644
--- a/src/escpos/magicencode.py
+++ b/src/escpos/magicencode.py
@@ -132,10 +132,10 @@ class Encoder(object):
         :param char: char to encode
         :param charmap: dictionary for mapping characters in this code page
         """
-        if char in charmap:
-            return charmap[char]
         if ord(char) < 128:
             return ord(char)
+        if char in charmap:
+            return charmap[char]
         return ord('?')
 
     def encode(self, text, encoding, defaultchar='?'):