TextMeshPro text vertical text

I haven't upgraded in a while so maybe something you have fixed.

Now and then I will have a TextMeshPro object that has a Localize component and things look fine in the Editor but when I run the text displays completely vertical stacked one character at a time. Then the next time it refreshes it fixes itself.

Sometimes I can get it to go away if I mess with the TextMeshPro inspector values, like disabling wordwrap or changing the text rectangle. But it seems to randomly occur to other TextMeshPro items as we change things in development. And I don't want to have to keep trying to fix it whenever it appears.

I traced it down to the function DoLocalize_TMPUGUILabel(), mTarget_TMPUGUILabel.ForceMeshUpdate() call. If I comment this out then the problem seems to go away. But I don't want that to be my solution as I am scared that might be a needed call. I don't use RTL alignment so is it needed?

version I have is 2.6.1 f2
it's been working pretty well for us and our project went live recently so I haven't had a real reason to update until now. I just need to find a good time in our schedule to do it.

Is there something I could band-aid on the SetText call for now until I fully update?

never mind, I'm looking into updating to the latest now. I'll let you know if that fixes things. thanks!

upgrading has fixed this problem. thanks!