Issue 126755 - Support .hwp file format
Summary: Support .hwp file format
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: save-export (show other issues)
Version: 4.1.2
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Major with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: CJK
: 49123 69778 128106 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2015-12-27 01:37 UTC by Paul Kellner
Modified: 2021-05-25 15:46 UTC (History)
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Description Paul Kellner 2015-12-27 01:37:16 UTC 
The assumption that "this is an ancient file format that nobody uses" is not correct. I live and work in Korea. hwp is alive and well and hardly ancient except perhaps in the United States. Since there are more Korean speakers than French speakers in world you might reconsider this anglo-centric change to the software. HangulWriter is a currently supported software in the Korean speaking world which Open Office also supports.
I use Hancom software that reads and writes this format natively on my Android. My teachers all use this format.

Google: 
filetype:hwp
filetype:hwp site:kr
filetype:hwp site:ac.kr

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul_%28word_processor%29

Note the comment that it is widely used by the government. I have found this to be true when using Korean Government websites.  Converting present and future content to odt format is a formidable task. 

A major reason for using OpenOffice here is that it supports reading and writing hwp.

Please put this back in.
Comment 1 Andrea Pescetti 2015-12-27 19:22:39 UTC 
The assumption that removing support for HWP would not be a major problem to users was verified with the Korean localization team.

Note that, as far as I know, OpenOffice did not support the latest version of the HWP format, only the version(s) previous to 1997.

Do you have examples of widely available HWP files that used to open correctly with OpenOffice 4.1.1?

The reason for removing the HWP filter was that it was abandoned and posed security risks. If someone wants to help and work to restore it, and properly maintain it, the HWP filter can be brought back into OpenOffice.
Comment 2 oooforum (fr) 2019-05-06 08:21:32 UTC 
*** Issue 128106 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 oooforum (fr) 2019-05-06 08:26:34 UTC 
*** Issue 49123 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 4 oooforum (fr) 2019-05-06 08:27:54 UTC 
*** Issue 69778 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***