I don't think the programming language fragment is really a boundary condition. Most code source nowadays are not just random hex, there typically, not exceptionally, some real linguistic content. I would agree with you that a hex dump of a
<span style="font-style: italic;">compiled</span> program, such as perhaps you used for your example, is sensible to tag as zxx, but based on the wording of the standards, I don't think we can expect zxx to apply to typical code source. Yet, while there may be is some embedded English, we don't want to call it "en" either.
<br><br>It looks to me like the best choice <span style="font-style: italic;">currently </span>would be "und"; as I said, I think it might be useful to have a special tag for this just because it is a reasonably common case that is otherwise difficult to categorize. An alternative would be to
<span style="font-style: italic;">explicitly </span>broaden the description of "zxx" to be "no linguistic content, or programming source code". That would be a compatible change to 4646bis, since it is a broadening.
<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Constable</b> <<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com">petercon@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> </span></b>As in example #9 of <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfqr8rd5_11g425c9" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> </span>to think that the following contains "no
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">> </span>It obviously contains linguistic content.</p>
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