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Originally Posted by NatCh
Welcome to MobileRead, mota! 
I'm not sure what you mean by "code page" ....  |
He means the character set that is used to represent the binary data in the ebook. Some examples are "US-ASCII", "Windows-1252", "UTF-8", etc. Different code pages (character encodings) will display different characters for a given binary number. This is even more important for the display of foreign languages (non-western languages in particular).
This issue came up recently with regards to FBReader not displaying curly quotes and em-dashes correctly, due to it defaulting to a particular character encoding that displayed the curly quotes and em-dashes as little boxes. A later release of FBReader added a setting which allowed the user to set a default character encoding to correct this.
I noticed in someone's screenshot of a text ebook on the Cybook that some of the characters were not displayed correctly. This is most likely because of an incorrect character encoding. In other words, the Cybook does need a way for the user to change this.