diff --git a/evennia/utils/evtable.py b/evennia/utils/evtable.py
index 4c3a501172..9cd7c20275 100644
--- a/evennia/utils/evtable.py
+++ b/evennia/utils/evtable.py
@@ -199,6 +199,62 @@ class ANSITextWrapper(TextWrapper):
 
         return chunks
 
+    def _handle_long_word(self, reversed_chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width):
+        """_handle_long_word(chunks : [string],
+                             cur_line : [string],
+                             cur_len : int, width : int)
+
+        Handle a chunk of text (most likely a word, not whitespace) that
+        is too long to fit in any line.
+        """
+        # Figure out when indent is larger than the specified width, and make
+        # sure at least one character is stripped off on every pass
+        if width < 1:
+            space_left = 1
+        else:
+            space_left = width - cur_len
+
+        # If we're allowed to break long words, then do so: put as much
+        # of the next chunk onto the current line as will fit.
+        if self.break_long_words:
+            chunk = reversed_chunks[-1]
+            # Calculate end using a loop against d_len
+            end = 1
+            chunk_length = len(chunk)
+            
+            while end <= chunk_length:
+                new_chunk = chunk[:end]
+                d_len_new_chunk = d_len(new_chunk)
+                
+                # Length is perfect
+                if d_len_new_chunk == space_left:
+                    break
+                elif d_len_new_chunk > space_left:
+                    end -= 1
+                    break
+                end += 1
+            
+            if self.break_on_hyphens and len(chunk) > space_left:
+                # break after last hyphen, but only if there are
+                # non-hyphens before it
+                hyphen = chunk.rfind('-', 0, space_left)
+                if hyphen > 0 and any(c != '-' for c in chunk[:hyphen]):
+                    end = hyphen + 1
+            cur_line.append(chunk[:end])
+            reversed_chunks[-1] = chunk[end:]
+
+        # Otherwise, we have to preserve the long word intact.  Only add
+        # it to the current line if there's nothing already there --
+        # that minimizes how much we violate the width constraint.
+        elif not cur_line:
+            cur_line.append(reversed_chunks.pop())
+
+        # If we're not allowed to break long words, and there's already
+        # text on the current line, do nothing.  Next time through the
+        # main loop of _wrap_chunks(), we'll wind up here again, but
+        # cur_len will be zero, so the next line will be entirely
+        # devoted to the long word that we can't handle right now.
+  
     def _wrap_chunks(self, chunks):
         """_wrap_chunks(chunks : [string]) -> [string]