diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 77cacdd..1bb544b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -4793,7 +4793,8 @@ SET XML OPTION { DOCUMENT | CONTENT };
       <listitem>
        <para>
         Sets the client-side encoding (character set).
-        The default is to use the database encoding.
+        The default is to use the database encoding.  For more information on
+        available encodings, see <xref linkend="multibyte-charset-supported">.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>