diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 42a005291..47afd50ae 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -14,15 +14,17 @@ require (
 	github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51
 	github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.7
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.12
+	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.9
 	github.com/mgutz/ansi v0.0.0-20200706080929-d51e80ef957d
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
+	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.1.0
 	github.com/shurcooL/githubv4 v0.0.0-20200802174311-f27d2ca7f6d5
 	github.com/shurcooL/graphql v0.0.0-20181231061246-d48a9a75455f
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.0.0
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200820211705-5c72a883971a
-	golang.org/x/text v0.3.3
+	golang.org/x/text v0.3.3 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200615113413-eeeca48fe776
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 107d9a245..f9f02eabe 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ github.com/prometheus/common v0.4.0/go.mod h1:TNfzLD0ON7rHzMJeJkieUDPYmFC7Snx/y8
 github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.0.0-20181005140218-185b4288413d/go.mod h1:c3At6R/oaqEKCNdg8wHV1ftS6bRYblBhIjjI8uT2IGk=
 github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.0.0-20190507164030-5867b95ac084/go.mod h1:TjEm7ze935MbeOT/UhFTIMYKhuLP4wbCsTZCD3I8kEA=
 github.com/prometheus/tsdb v0.7.1/go.mod h1:qhTCs0VvXwvX/y3TZrWD7rabWM+ijKTux40TwIPHuXU=
+github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.1.0 h1:+2KBaVoUmb9XzDsrx/Ct0W/EYOSFf/nWTauy++DprtY=
+github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.1.0/go.mod h1:J6wj4VEh+S6ZtnVlnTBMWIodfgj8LQOQFoIToxlJtxc=
 github.com/rogpeppe/fastuuid v0.0.0-20150106093220-6724a57986af/go.mod h1:XWv6SoW27p1b0cqNHllgS5HIMJraePCO15w5zCzIWYg=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1 h1:lPqVAte+HuHNfhJ/0LC98ESWRz8afy9tM/0RK8m9o+Q=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
diff --git a/pkg/text/truncate.go b/pkg/text/truncate.go
index 78cd05da2..98a924c3e 100644
--- a/pkg/text/truncate.go
+++ b/pkg/text/truncate.go
@@ -1,80 +1,75 @@
 package text
 
 import (
-	"golang.org/x/text/width"
+	runewidth "github.com/mattn/go-runewidth"
+	"github.com/rivo/uniseg"
 )
 
-// DisplayWidth calculates what the rendered width of a string may be
-func DisplayWidth(s string) int {
-	w := 0
-	for _, r := range s {
-		w += runeDisplayWidth(r)
-	}
-	return w
-}
-
 const (
 	ellipsisWidth       = 3
 	minWidthForEllipsis = 5
 )
 
+// DisplayWidth calculates what the rendered width of a string may be
+func DisplayWidth(s string) int {
+	g := uniseg.NewGraphemes(s)
+	w := 0
+	for g.Next() {
+		w += graphemeWidth(g)
+	}
+	return w
+}
+
 // Truncate shortens a string to fit the maximum display width
-func Truncate(max int, s string) string {
+func Truncate(maxWidth int, s string) string {
 	w := DisplayWidth(s)
-	if w <= max {
+	if w <= maxWidth {
 		return s
 	}
 
 	useEllipsis := false
-	if max >= minWidthForEllipsis {
+	if maxWidth >= minWidthForEllipsis {
 		useEllipsis = true
-		max -= ellipsisWidth
+		maxWidth -= ellipsisWidth
 	}
 
-	cw := 0
-	ri := 0
-	for _, r := range s {
-		rw := runeDisplayWidth(r)
-		if cw+rw > max {
+	g := uniseg.NewGraphemes(s)
+	r := ""
+	rWidth := 0
+	for {
+		g.Next()
+		gWidth := graphemeWidth(g)
+
+		if rWidth+gWidth <= maxWidth {
+			r += g.Str()
+			rWidth += gWidth
+			continue
+		} else {
 			break
 		}
-		cw += rw
-		ri++
 	}
 
-	res := string([]rune(s)[:ri])
 	if useEllipsis {
-		res += "..."
-	}
-	if cw < max {
-		// compensate if truncating a wide character left an odd space
-		res += " "
-	}
-	return res
-}
-
-var runeDisplayWidthOverrides = map[rune]int{
-	'“': 1,
-	'”': 1,
-	'‘': 1,
-	'’': 1,
-	'–': 1, // en dash
-	'—': 1, // em dash
-	'→': 1,
-	'…': 1,
-	'•': 1, // bullet
-	'·': 1, // middle dot
-}
-
-func runeDisplayWidth(r rune) int {
-	if w, ok := runeDisplayWidthOverrides[r]; ok {
-		return w
+		r += "..."
 	}
 
-	switch width.LookupRune(r).Kind() {
-	case width.EastAsianWide, width.EastAsianAmbiguous, width.EastAsianFullwidth:
-		return 2
-	default:
-		return 1
+	if rWidth < maxWidth {
+		r += " "
 	}
+
+	return r
+}
+
+// graphemeWidth calculates what the rendered width of a grapheme may be
+func graphemeWidth(g *uniseg.Graphemes) int {
+	// If grapheme spans one rune use that rune width
+	// If grapheme spans multiple runes use the first non-zero rune width
+	w := 0
+	for _, r := range g.Runes() {
+		w = runewidth.RuneWidth(r)
+		if w > 0 {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return w
 }
diff --git a/pkg/text/truncate_test.go b/pkg/text/truncate_test.go
index 85a399e80..95119e2ff 100644
--- a/pkg/text/truncate_test.go
+++ b/pkg/text/truncate_test.go
@@ -62,6 +62,22 @@ func TestTruncate(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			want: "a프로젝... ",
 		},
+		{
+			name: "Emoji",
+			args: args{
+				max: 11,
+				s:   "💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡",
+			},
+			want: "💡💡💡💡...",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "Accented characters",
+			args: args{
+				max: 11,
+				s:   "é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́",
+			},
+			want: "é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́...",
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -128,6 +144,11 @@ func TestDisplayWidth(t *testing.T) {
 			text: `👍`,
 			want: 2,
 		},
+		{
+			name: "accent character",
+			text: `é́́`,
+			want: 1,
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {