diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 53437ce1e52..c5283ed1992 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -924,6 +924,8 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 | cp500           | EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CH,    | Western Europe                 |
 |                 | IBM500                         |                                |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
+| cp720           |                                | Arabic                         |
++-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | cp737           |                                | Greek                          |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | cp775           | IBM775                         | Baltic languages               |