diff --git a/src/regexp/all_test.go b/src/regexp/all_test.go
index beb46e70995..28fe20c15d8 100644
--- a/src/regexp/all_test.go
+++ b/src/regexp/all_test.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp/syntax"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"unicode/utf8"
 )
 
 var goodRe = []string{
@@ -354,6 +355,7 @@ type MetaTest struct {
 var metaTests = []MetaTest{
 	{``, ``, ``, true},
 	{`foo`, `foo`, `foo`, true},
+	{`日本語+`, `日本語\+`, `日本語`, false},
 	{`foo\.\$`, `foo\\\.\\\$`, `foo.$`, true}, // has meta but no operator
 	{`foo.\$`, `foo\.\\\$`, `foo`, false},     // has escaped operators and real operators
 	{`!@#$%^&*()_+-=[{]}\|,<.>/?~`, `!@#\$%\^&\*\(\)_\+-=\[\{\]\}\\\|,<\.>/\?~`, `!@#`, false},
@@ -822,7 +824,13 @@ func BenchmarkMatchParallelCopied(b *testing.B) {
 var sink string
 
 func BenchmarkQuoteMetaAll(b *testing.B) {
-	s := string(specialBytes)
+	specials := make([]byte, 0)
+	for i := byte(0); i < utf8.RuneSelf; i++ {
+		if special(i) {
+			specials = append(specials, i)
+		}
+	}
+	s := string(specials)
 	b.SetBytes(int64(len(s)))
 	b.ResetTimer()
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
diff --git a/src/regexp/regexp.go b/src/regexp/regexp.go
index 924b0119912..b1af23e8504 100644
--- a/src/regexp/regexp.go
+++ b/src/regexp/regexp.go
@@ -609,10 +609,18 @@ func (re *Regexp) ReplaceAllFunc(src []byte, repl func([]byte) []byte) []byte {
 	})
 }
 
-var specialBytes = []byte(`\.+*?()|[]{}^$`)
+// Bitmap used by func special to check whether a character needs to be escaped.
+var specialBytes [16]byte
 
+// special reports whether byte b needs to be escaped by QuoteMeta.
 func special(b byte) bool {
-	return bytes.IndexByte(specialBytes, b) >= 0
+	return b < utf8.RuneSelf && specialBytes[b%16]&(1<<(b/16)) != 0
+}
+
+func init() {
+	for _, b := range []byte(`\.+*?()|[]{}^$`) {
+		specialBytes[b%16] |= 1 << (b / 16)
+	}
 }
 
 // QuoteMeta returns a string that quotes all regular expression metacharacters