diff --git a/gui/mplayer/gtk/opts.c b/gui/mplayer/gtk/opts.c
index 234245c908..a8db3635dd 100644
--- a/gui/mplayer/gtk/opts.c
+++ b/gui/mplayer/gtk/opts.c
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ static struct
   { "iso-8859-5",  MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding7 },
   { "cp1251",      MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding21},
   { "iso-8859-6",  MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding8 },
+  { "cp1256",      MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding23 },
   { "iso-8859-7",  MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding9 },
   { "iso-8859-9",  MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding10 },
   { "iso-8859-13", MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding11 },
diff --git a/help/help_mp-en.h b/help/help_mp-en.h
index c0606c8c1a..fe8b2557e9 100644
--- a/help/help_mp-en.h
+++ b/help/help_mp-en.h
@@ -944,6 +944,7 @@ static char help_text[]=
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding20 "Thai charset (CP874)"
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding21 "Cyrillic Windows (CP1251)"
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding22 "Slavic/Central European Windows (CP1250)"
+#define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontEncoding23 "Arabic Windows (CP1256)"
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontNoAutoScale "No autoscale"
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontPropWidth "Proportional to movie width"
 #define MSGTR_PREFERENCES_FontPropHeight "Proportional to movie height"