diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Escaper/Rtf.php b/src/PhpWord/Escaper/Rtf.php
index b8e0b2169c..42eb22a777 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Escaper/Rtf.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Escaper/Rtf.php
@@ -26,8 +26,14 @@ class Rtf extends AbstractEscaper
 {
     protected function escapeAsciiCharacter($code)
     {
-        if (20 > $code || $code >= 80) {
-            return '{\u' . $code . '}';
+        if ($code == 9) {
+            return '{\\tab}';
+        }
+        if (0x20 > $code || $code >= 0x80) {
+            return '{\\u' . $code . '}';
+        }
+        if ($code == 123 || $code == 125 || $code == 92) { // open or close brace or backslash
+            return '\\' . chr($code);
         }
 
         return chr($code);
@@ -35,7 +41,7 @@ protected function escapeAsciiCharacter($code)
 
     protected function escapeMultibyteCharacter($code)
     {
-        return '\uc0{\u' . $code . '}';
+        return '\\uc0{\\u' . $code . '}';
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/Escaper/RtfEscaper2Test.php b/tests/PhpWord/Escaper/RtfEscaper2Test.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..21c8a8c34f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/Escaper/RtfEscaper2Test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * This file is part of PHPWord - A pure PHP library for reading and writing
+ * word processing documents.
+ *
+ * PHPWord is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please read the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code. For the full list of
+ * contributors, visit https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/contributors.
+ *
+ * @see         https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord
+ * @copyright   2010-2018 PHPWord contributors
+ * @license     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt LGPL version 3
+ */
+
+namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord\Escaper;
+
+/**
+ * Test class for PhpOffice\PhpWord\Escaper\RTF
+ */
+class RtfEscaper2Test extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
+{
+    const HEADER = '\\pard\\nowidctlpar {\\cf0\\f0 ';
+    const TRAILER = '}\\par';
+
+    public function escapestring($str)
+    {
+        \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Settings::setOutputEscapingEnabled(true);
+        $parentWriter = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF();
+        $element = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Text($str);
+        $txt = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF\Element\Text($parentWriter, $element);
+        $txt2 = trim($txt->write());
+
+        return $txt2;
+    }
+
+    public function expect($str)
+    {
+        return self::HEADER . $str . self::TRAILER;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test special characters which require escaping
+     */
+    public function testSpecial()
+    {
+        $str = 'Special characters { open brace } close brace \\ backslash';
+        $expect = $this->expect('Special characters \\{ open brace \\} close brace \\\\ backslash');
+        $this->assertEquals($expect, $this->escapestring($str));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test accented character
+     */
+    public function testAccent()
+    {
+        $str = 'Voilà - string with accented char';
+        $expect = $this->expect('Voil\\uc0{\\u224} - string with accented char');
+        $this->assertEquals($expect, $this->escapestring($str));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test Hebrew
+     */
+    public function testHebrew()
+    {
+        $str = 'Hebrew - שלום';
+        $expect = $this->expect('Hebrew - \\uc0{\\u1513}\\uc0{\\u1500}\\uc0{\\u1493}\\uc0{\\u1501}');
+        $this->assertEquals($expect, $this->escapestring($str));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test tab
+     */
+    public function testTab()
+    {
+        $str = "Here's a tab\tfollowed by more characters.";
+        $expect = $this->expect("Here's a tab{\\tab}followed by more characters.");
+        $this->assertEquals($expect, $this->escapestring($str));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/PhpWord/Writer/RTF/ElementTest.php b/tests/PhpWord/Writer/RTF/ElementTest.php
index 4b01bacfa2..3e9c235d13 100644
--- a/tests/PhpWord/Writer/RTF/ElementTest.php
+++ b/tests/PhpWord/Writer/RTF/ElementTest.php
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
  */
 class ElementTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
 {
+    public function removeCr($field)
+    {
+        return str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $field->write());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test unmatched elements
      */
@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ public function testPageField()
         $element = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Field('PAGE');
         $field = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF\Element\Field($parentWriter, $element);
 
-        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst PAGE}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $field->write());
+        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst PAGE}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $this->removeCr($field));
     }
 
     public function testNumpageField()
@@ -55,7 +60,7 @@ public function testNumpageField()
         $element = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Field('NUMPAGES');
         $field = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF\Element\Field($parentWriter, $element);
 
-        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst NUMPAGES}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $field->write());
+        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst NUMPAGES}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $this->removeCr($field));
     }
 
     public function testDateField()
@@ -64,7 +69,7 @@ public function testDateField()
         $element = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Field('DATE', array('dateformat' => 'd MM yyyy H:mm:ss'));
         $field = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF\Element\Field($parentWriter, $element);
 
-        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst DATE \\\\@ \"d MM yyyy H:mm:ss\"}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $field->write());
+        $this->assertEquals("{\\field{\\*\\fldinst DATE \\\\@ \"d MM yyyy H:mm:ss\"}{\\fldrslt}}\\par\n", $this->removeCr($field));
     }
 
     public function testIndexField()
@@ -73,6 +78,6 @@ public function testIndexField()
         $element = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\Field('INDEX');
         $field = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Writer\RTF\Element\Field($parentWriter, $element);
 
-        $this->assertEquals("{}\\par\n", $field->write());
+        $this->assertEquals("{}\\par\n", $this->removeCr($field));
     }
 }