how are you determining it doesn't display right on some servers but not other servers?
the data will have the control characters no matter what in them, but it's up to the presentation layer to determine whether to display something as multi line or not.
note, for example, in SSMS, the gridview never wraps to multi line, only text view does; could it be something that simple?
Lowell
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