diff --git a/lib/escape.js b/lib/escape.js
index 05f74ec..9a1fc72 100644
--- a/lib/escape.js
+++ b/lib/escape.js
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ module.exports = function (c, code, meta, options){
   //Control sets 0 and 1
   if (code < 160) return unicode (code);
   
-  //Printable 8-bit character
-  if (code < 256) return c;
-  
   //Latin1 multibyte character
   return options.unicode ? unicode (code) : c;
-};
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+};
diff --git a/test/stringify.js b/test/stringify.js
index 250c513..bcc0d53 100644
--- a/test/stringify.js
+++ b/test/stringify.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ var tests = {
   "iso-8859-1": function (){
     var options = { unicode: true };
     var data = properties.stringify ({ "¡": "ÿ", "Ā": "a" }, options);
-    var expected = "¡ = ÿ" + EOL + "\\u0100 = a";
+    var expected = "\\u00a1 = \\u00ff" + EOL + "\\u0100 = a";
     assert.strictEqual (data, expected);
   },
   "comments multiline": function (){
@@ -156,4 +156,4 @@ var tests = {
 
 for (var test in tests){
   tests[test] ();
-}
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+}