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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] = {