The problem is located in this block in LineArea.java. the doHyphenation will
return 0, and the if statement is entered because there was not enough room for
the hyphenated word, and addWord will return 0, because it’s the beginning of
the word and it will start all over.

A workaround is to prevent the column size can be smaller then the size of a
single character

if (this.wrapOption == WrapOption.WRAP) {

                        if (hyphProps.hyphenate == Hyphenate.TRUE) {
                            int ret = wordStart;
                            ret = this.doHyphenation(data, i, wordStart,
                                                     this.getContentWidth()
                                                     - (finalWidth
                                                        + spaceWidth
                                                        + pendingWidth),
                                                     finalWidth + spaceWidth
                                                     + embeddedLinkStart,
                                                     ls, textState);

                            // current word couldn't be hypenated
                            // couldn't fit first word
                            // I am at the beginning of my line
                            if ((ret == wordStart) &&
                                (wordStart == start) &&
                                (finalWidth == 0)) {

                                MessageHandler.log("area contents overflows"
                                                   + " area in line "
                                                   + getLineText());
                                addSpacedWord(new String(data, wordStart,
wordLength - 1),
                                              ls,
                                              embeddedLinkStart,
                                              spaceWidth, textState, false);

                                finalWidth += wordWidth;
                                wordWidth = 0;
                                ret = i;
                            }
                            return ret;
                        } else if (wordStart == start) {
                            // first word
                            overrun = true;
                            // if not at start of line, return word start
                            // to try again on a new line
                            if (finalWidth > 0) {
                                return wordStart;
                            }
                        } else {
                            return wordStart;
                        }

                    }
                }