What are the real-world applications of huffman coding?

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I am told that Huffman coding is used as loseless data compression algorithm but also am told that real data compress software do not employ huffman coding,cause if the keys are not distributed decentralized enough,the compressed file could be even larger than the orignal file.

This leave me wondering are there any real-world application of huffman coding?

thanks.

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