One major challenge that arose in our efforts to create a working protocol was the issue of how we would convey to each other which pieces of text would be formatted in what manner. We thought about this problem and came up with the solution of using a string of unusual characters to signify that the following text would be formatted in a particular style.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) uses tags such as "<b>" to indicate that the following text should be formatted in a particular style. Our approach is similar to HyperText Markup Language (HTML) in that it signifies formatting style through the use of special characters.
One significant disadvantage that ASCII has is that it is limited to basic english alphabet characters and common symbols. Other encoding standards, such as Unicode, has a much larger number of special characters including some non-western symbols.
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