27. The method of claim 21, wherein first set of data characters is GB and the second set of data character is ASCII, and wherein the step of parsing comprises the step of examining the data values for the string equal to Hexadecimal 2A.
21. A method of encoding a data string into a symbol, the method of encoding comprising the steps of: receiving the data string comprising a plurality of character codes selected from a first set of character codes, wherein the first set of character codes map to a first set of data characters, and wherein a second set of data characters form a subset of the data characters in the first set of data characters; parsing the data string to remove all character codes corresponding to the data characters contained in the second set of data characters; converting each of the character codes in the parsed data string into a first defined number of symbol values, and converting the character codes parsed from the data string into a second defined number of symbol values, where the second defined number of symbol values is greater than the first defined number of symbol values; and outputting the converted symbol values corresponding to the parsed character codes and the converted symbol values corresponding to the parsed data string.