How to prevent words from breaking in textview when using wrap_content?

I am in the process of trying to convert a desktop app to Android - and am struggling with some very basic stuff.

When I specify a layout 开发者_如何学运维including a textview that holds a sizable amount of text wrap_content seems to arbitrarily break in the middle of a word and I can not find any documentation indicating this can be controlled.

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Try useing Ellipsize property of TextView.

"If set, causes words that are longer than the view is wide to be ellipsized instead of broken in the middle"

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Just posting this since none of the other solutions worked for me.

I had copied and pasted some text from online and I didn't realize it had weird spacing characters in that caused the text to wrap mid-word rather than at whitespace.

Here is the nasty character " " that looks like a space but isn't actually a space. I did a find and replace for this character and that solved my problem.