diff --git a/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
index a76cd7cd0..31ea17a5f 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
+++ b/fineract-provider/config/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@
           <module name="NeedBraces"/>
           <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>     
           <module name="NoLineWrap"/>
+         <module name="IllegalTokenText">
+            <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
+            <property name="format" value="\\u00(08|09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
+            <property name="message" value="Avoid using corresponding octal or Unicode escape."/>
+        </module>
 <!-- TODO Enable many more checks (go about this one by one, step by step, raise separate PRs fixing and then enforcing):
 
         <module name="HiddenField">
@@ -117,12 +122,6 @@
       
         <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder" />
         <module name="OuterTypeFilename"/>
-        <module name="IllegalTokenText">
-            <property name="tokens" value="STRING_LITERAL, CHAR_LITERAL"/>
-            <property name="format" value="\\u00(08|09|0(a|A)|0(c|C)|0(d|D)|22|27|5(C|c))|\\(0(10|11|12|14|15|42|47)|134)"/>
-            <property name="message" value="Avoid using corresponding octal or Unicode escape."/>
-        </module>
-       
         <module name="OneTopLevelClass"/>
        
         <module name="EmptyBlock">