diff --git a/utils.go b/utils.go
index 7e600def..0fdd17b4 100644
--- a/utils.go
+++ b/utils.go
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import (
 	"math/rand"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 	"unicode/utf8"
@@ -397,6 +398,12 @@ func ParseFeed(c appengine.Context, contentType, origUrl, fetchUrl string, body
 		}
 		if enc != encoding.Nop {
 			cr = nilCharsetReader
+			preview := string(body[:128]) // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251" ?>
+			r := regexp.MustCompile(`<\?xml.*encoding="(.*)".*\?>`)
+			rr := r.FindStringSubmatch(preview)
+			if len(rr) > 1 {
+				enc, _ = charset.Lookup(rr[1])
+			}
 			body, err = ioutil.ReadAll(transform.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(body), enc.NewDecoder()))
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, nil, err