diff --git a/scripts/i3status/Cargo.toml b/scripts/i3status/Cargo.toml
index 3848e04..1b4b5ad 100644
--- a/scripts/i3status/Cargo.toml
+++ b/scripts/i3status/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ i3status-rs = { git = "https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust.git" }
 serde_json = "1.0.96"
 tokio = "1.28.1"
 toml = "0.7.4"
+unicode-segmentation = "1.10.1"
diff --git a/scripts/i3status/src/main.rs b/scripts/i3status/src/main.rs
index f4c32c1..4f9baf6 100644
--- a/scripts/i3status/src/main.rs
+++ b/scripts/i3status/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use unicode_segmentation::UnicodeSegmentation;
 
 use i3status_rs::{
     blocks,
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ use i3status_rs::{
 async fn main() {
     if let Err(e) = try_main().await {
         let err_widget = Widget::new()
-            .with_text(e.to_string().chars().collect_pango_escaped())
+            .with_text(e.to_string().graphemes(true).collect_pango_escaped())
             .with_state(State::Critical);
 
         serde_json::to_writer(