Textarea formatting for carriage returns

Hi all,
I've created a websheet that includes a textarea column and have found that while any text entered in edit mode displays a carriage return, as soon as the data has been entered and the field returns to read-only mode the carriage returns are not retained . . . all of the content is displayed in one continuous string. Is there a way to accomplish this?
Note: Using APEX v4
Thanks.
Edited by: arrowjf on Jan 6, 2012 1:18 PM

* The TextArea control uses UNIX-style line endings, which
means that text data containing Windows-style carriage-return
line-feed (that is, \r\n) formatting for new lines contain extra
line breaks. You can use String.replace() with a regular expression
to convert the text to UNIX-style line endings, as the following
example shows:
private static const windowsCRLF:RegExp = /\r\n/gm;
myTextString = myTextString.replace(windowsCRLF, "\n");
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flex/2/releasenotes_flex2_sdk.html

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