diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a65950ab..657df77c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1104,9 +1104,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-segmentation"
-version = "1.7.1"
+version = "1.8.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bb0d2e7be6ae3a5fa87eed5fb451aff96f2573d2694942e40543ae0bbe19c796"
+checksum = "8895849a949e7845e06bd6dc1aa51731a103c42707010a5b591c0038fb73385b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
diff --git a/helix-core/Cargo.toml b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
index 80d559a9..634c4d9f 100644
--- a/helix-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ helix-syntax = { version = "0.3", path = "../helix-syntax" }
 ropey = "1.3"
 smallvec = "1.4"
 tendril = "0.4.2"
-unicode-segmentation = "1.7"
+unicode-segmentation = "1.8"
 unicode-width = "0.1"
 unicode-general-category = "0.4"
 # slab = "0.4.2"
diff --git a/helix-tui/Cargo.toml b/helix-tui/Cargo.toml
index 7f98144c..33a9427a 100644
--- a/helix-tui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-tui/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ default = ["crossterm"]
 [dependencies]
 bitflags = "1.0"
 cassowary = "0.3"
-unicode-segmentation = "1.2"
+unicode-segmentation = "1.8"
 crossterm = { version = "0.20", optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1", "optional" = true, features = ["derive"]}
 helix-view = { version = "0.3", path = "../helix-view", features = ["term"] }