Yep, it needs to be Arabic to work as you wish.
I will add something to the next beta that will make it easier for you (and independent of that system setting!):
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+ Text Preview: Added tweak to remember the last selected code page across
previews:
TextPreviewCodePageRemember=1
If TextPreviewCodePageRemember=0 then the codepage will automatically
switch back to the system default code page for the next preview.
Tip: You select the codepage under the orange button on the Preview tab on
the Info Panel (F12) while a text file is being previewed.
If TextPreviewCodePageRemember=1 then you can, for example, set the
codepage to Arabic (1256) and all text previews will use this codepage to
interprete the bytes in the file. Advantage: You don't have to set the
system-wide default codepage to Arabic!