Fixed deprecation warning. [bug=1855301]

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index a691583..261b576 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 = Unreleased
 
-* Fixed a deprecation warning on Python 3.7. Patch by Colin
-  Watson. [bug=1847592]
-
 * Added Python docstrings to most public methods.
 
-* The html.parser tree builder now correctly handles DOCTYPEs that are
-  not uppercase. [bug=1848401]
-
 * Added a Chinese translation by Deron Wang and a Brazilian Portuguese
   translation by Cezar Peixeiro to the repository.
 
-* PageElement.select() now returns a ResultSet rather than a regular list,
-  making it consistent with methods like find_all().
+* Fixed two deprecation warnings. Patches by Colin
+  Watson and Nicholas Neumann. [bug=1847592] [bug=1855301]
+
+* The html.parser tree builder now correctly handles DOCTYPEs that are
+  not uppercase. [bug=1848401]
+
+* PageElement.select() now returns a ResultSet rather than a regular
+  list, making it consistent with methods like find_all().
 
 = 4.8.1 (20191006)
 
diff --git a/bs4/dammit.py b/bs4/dammit.py
index e72a867..eb08568 100644
--- a/bs4/dammit.py
+++ b/bs4/dammit.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ except ImportError:
 
 # Build bytestring and Unicode versions of regular expressions for finding
 # a declared encoding inside an XML or HTML document.
-xml_encoding = u'^\s*<\\?.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*\\?>'
+xml_encoding = u'^\\s*<\\?.*encoding=[\'"](.*?)[\'"].*\\?>'
 html_meta = u'<\\s*meta[^>]+charset\\s*=\\s*["\']?([^>]*?)[ /;\'">]'
 encoding_res = dict()
 encoding_res[bytes] = {