diff --git a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-common-harvester-options.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-common-harvester-options.asciidoc
index b9fa634b4cb..8f161006416 100644
--- a/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-common-harvester-options.asciidoc
+++ b/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-common-harvester-options.asciidoc
@@ -14,11 +14,59 @@ The file encoding to use for reading data that contains international
 characters. See the encoding names http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/[recommended by
 the W3C for use in HTML5].
 
-Here are some sample encodings from W3C recommendation:
-
-    * plain, latin1, utf-8, utf-16be-bom, utf-16be, utf-16le, big5, gb18030,
-    gbk, hz-gb-2312,
-    * euc-kr, euc-jp, iso-2022-jp, shift-jis, and so on
+Valid encodings:
+
+	* `plain`: plain ASCII encoding
+	* `utf-8` or `utf8`: UTF-8 encoding
+	* `gbk`: simplified Chinese charaters
+	* `iso8859-6e`: ISO8859-6E, Latin/Arabic
+	* `iso8859-6i`: ISO8859-6I, Latin/Arabic
+	* `iso8859-8e`: ISO8859-8E, Latin/Hebrew
+	* `iso8859-8i`: ISO8859-8I, Latin/Hebrew
+	* `iso8859-1`: ISO8859-1, Latin-1
+	* `iso8859-2`: ISO8859-2, Latin-2
+	* `iso8859-3`: ISO8859-3, Latin-3
+	* `iso8859-4`: ISO8859-4, Latin-4
+	* `iso8859-5`: ISO8859-5, Latin/Cyrillic
+	* `iso8859-6`: ISO8859-6, Latin/Arabic
+	* `iso8859-7`: ISO8859-7, Latin/Greek
+	* `iso8859-8`: ISO8859-8, Latin/Hebrew
+	* `iso8859-9`: ISO8859-9, Latin-5
+	* `iso8859-10`: ISO8859-10, Latin-6
+	* `iso8859-13`: ISO8859-13, Latin-7
+	* `iso8859-14`: ISO8859-14, Latin-8
+	* `iso8859-15`: ISO8859-15, Latin-9
+	* `iso8859-16`: ISO8859-16, Latin-10
+	* `cp437`: IBM CodePage 437
+	* `cp850`: IBM CodePage 850
+	* `cp852`: IBM CodePage 852
+	* `cp855`: IBM CodePage 855
+	* `cp858`: IBM CodePage 858
+	* `cp860`: IBM CodePage 860
+	* `cp862`: IBM CodePage 862
+	* `cp863`: IBM CodePage 863
+	* `cp865`: IBM CodePage 865
+	* `cp866`: IBM CodePage 866
+	* `ebcdic-037`: IBM CodePage 037
+	* `ebcdic-1040`: IBM CodePage 1140
+	* `ebcdic-1047`: IBM CodePage 1047
+	* `koi8r`: KOI8-R, Russian (Cyrillic)
+	* `koi8u`: KOI8-U, Ukranian (Cyrillic)
+	* `macintosh`: Macintosh encoding
+	* `macintosh-cyrillic`: Macintosh Cyrillic encoding
+	* `windows1250`: Windows1250, Central and Eastern European
+	* `windows1251`: Windows1251, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic)
+	* `windows1252`: Windows1252, Legacy
+	* `windows1253`: Windows1253, Modern Greek
+	* `windows1254`: Windows1254, Turkish
+	* `windows1255`: Windows1255, Hebrew
+	* `windows1256`: Windows1256, Arabic
+	* `windows1257`: Windows1257, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
+	* `windows1258`: Windows1258, Vietnamese
+	* `windows874`:  Windows874, ISO/IEC 8859-11, Latin/Thai
+	* `utf-16-bom`: UTF-16 with required BOM
+	* `utf-16be-bom`: big endian UTF-16 with required BOM
+	* `utf-16le-bom`: little endian UTF-16 with required BOM
 
 The `plain` encoding is special, because it does not validate or transform any input.