[Why is JasperReport removing non-breaking hyphen from string in text field?]

Not sure why this is happening but it looks like Jasper is removing - from my report. It's removing it and replacing it with nothing. This is a non-breaking hyphen. I'm trying to display the hyphen in my report.

[Extra white space at end of textfield after overflow]

This problem only happens when the length of the bottom textfield overflows.  There isn't a fixed hieght. You can see the border of the comment stretches to the very bottom.

The "Hello World" and comment section are inside a frame. I made sure to trim the comment prior.  It only happens when the comment grows.