is ISO-2022-CN actually used?

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Mon Dec 01 2003 - 19:36:45 EST

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    Question: Is the ISO-2022-CN or ISO-2022-CN-EXT charset for Chinese actually used significantly?

    I am aware that there is a significant user base for ISO-2022-JP and its subvariants (for Japanese).

    I am aware that there are numerous implementations of ISO-2022-CN converters.

    However, I would like to know if ISO-2022-CN is actually used, or if Chinese users and their
    software rather use other charsets like GB 2312, GBK, GB 18030, Big 5, EUC-CN, EUC-TW, HZ.

    Do you have anecdotal evidence from what Chinese versions and competitors of Hotmail, AOL, etc. do
    for email/SMTP charsets for Chinese?

    Do you know of any source of statistics for this kind of question?

    Thank you very much,
    markus

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