https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57008

--- Comment #5 from Günter Hoffmann <[email protected]> ---
Hi there, 
I wrote a test program and also a small web application using the newest beta
version of POI (poi-3.11-beta2-20140822)
and (as expected) the problem is still there.

I´m not familiar with reporting bugs and what responses I can expect from you.
So I don´t want to offend anybody but
My Problem is: I have about 20 reports which get their data from a database.
Each reports got several sheets and each sheet got 20 and more columns.
So there are many, many statements like "call.setCellValue(dataFromDatabase)".
It ´s rather impractical to add some conversion code to all these calls.
And the fact is that the problem is in POI not in my/our code.
In my opinion POI should offer a method where the programmer can decide whether
he wants to have an automatic conversion of these "_xhhhh_" stuff or not.
And the default behavior of setCellValue should be
"I´d like to see the text in Excel as I can see it in the database".
Or in other words: If I enter "_x0123_" in Excel it stays "_x0123_" in Excel,
but if I enter "_x0123_ in POI (using setCellValue) it does not stay the same!

So I don´t need a work-around I need a solution.
And this solution should be in POI I think.

So again: I don´t want to bother you (thanks to Dominik for his researches) but
I need some "POI responsible" who corrects this mis-behavior in POI and then of
course a new POI version some day.

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