diff --git a/src/css/layout/text.ts b/src/css/layout/text.ts
index 9b33e7c..59f0bde 100644
--- a/src/css/layout/text.ts
+++ b/src/css/layout/text.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import {OVERFLOW_WRAP} from '../property-descriptors/overflow-wrap';
 import {CSSParsedDeclaration} from '../index';
 import {fromCodePoint, LineBreaker, toCodePoints} from 'css-line-break';
+import {splitGraphemes} from 'text-segmentation';
 import {Bounds, parseBounds} from './bounds';
 import {FEATURES} from '../../core/features';
 import {Context} from '../../core/context';
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ const getRangeBounds = (context: Context, node: Text, offset: number, length: nu
 };
 
 const breakText = (value: string, styles: CSSParsedDeclaration): string[] => {
-    return styles.letterSpacing !== 0 ? toCodePoints(value).map((i) => fromCodePoint(i)) : breakWords(value, styles);
+    return styles.letterSpacing !== 0 ? splitGraphemes(value) : breakWords(value, styles);
 };
 
 // https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text/#word-separator
diff --git a/src/render/canvas/canvas-renderer.ts b/src/render/canvas/canvas-renderer.ts
index 2c4ded1..d2cefa7 100644
--- a/src/render/canvas/canvas-renderer.ts
+++ b/src/render/canvas/canvas-renderer.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ import {
 import {calculateBackgroundRendering, getBackgroundValueForIndex} from '../background';
 import {isDimensionToken} from '../../css/syntax/parser';
 import {TextBounds} from '../../css/layout/text';
-import {fromCodePoint, toCodePoints} from 'css-line-break';
 import {ImageElementContainer} from '../../dom/replaced-elements/image-element-container';
 import {contentBox} from '../box-sizing';
 import {CanvasElementContainer} from '../../dom/replaced-elements/canvas-element-container';
@@ -44,6 +43,7 @@ import {TextShadow} from '../../css/property-descriptors/text-shadow';
 import {PAINT_ORDER_LAYER} from '../../css/property-descriptors/paint-order';
 import {Renderer} from '../renderer';
 import {Context} from '../../core/context';
+import {splitGraphemes} from 'text-segmentation';
 
 export type RenderConfigurations = RenderOptions & {
     backgroundColor: Color | null;
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ export class CanvasRenderer extends Renderer {
         if (letterSpacing === 0) {
             this.ctx.fillText(text.text, text.bounds.left, text.bounds.top + baseline);
         } else {
-            const letters = toCodePoints(text.text).map((i) => fromCodePoint(i));
+            const letters = splitGraphemes(text.text);
             letters.reduce((left, letter) => {
                 this.ctx.fillText(letter, left, text.bounds.top + baseline);