diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index ba0dc2f6..826bf77b 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/alecthomas/chroma/v2 v2.27.0
 	github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.10.0
 	github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.1.1-0.20250404203927-76690c660834
+	github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.8.0
 	github.com/cli/browser v1.3.0
 	github.com/cli/safeexec v1.0.1
 	github.com/cli/shurcooL-graphql v0.0.4
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/itchyny/gojq v0.12.19
 	github.com/leaanthony/go-ansi-parser v1.6.1
 	github.com/mgutz/ansi v0.0.0-20200706080929-d51e80ef957d
-	github.com/muesli/reflow v0.3.0
 	github.com/muesli/termenv v0.16.0
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.12.1
 	github.com/thlib/go-timezone-local v0.0.8
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/aymanbagabas/go-osc52/v2 v2.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/aymerick/douceur v0.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/colorprofile v0.2.3-0.20250311203215-f60798e515dc // indirect
-	github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.8.0 // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/cellbuf v0.0.13 // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/exp/slice v0.0.0-20250327172914-2fdc97757edf // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/term v0.2.1 // indirect
@@ -55,6 +54,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.27 // indirect
 	github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.2 // indirect
+	github.com/muesli/reflow v0.3.0 // indirect
 	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7 // indirect
 	github.com/shopspring/decimal v1.4.0 // indirect
 	github.com/spf13/cast v1.7.0 // indirect
diff --git a/pkg/text/text.go b/pkg/text/text.go
index 687517f9..53fd0067 100644
--- a/pkg/text/text.go
+++ b/pkg/text/text.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"unicode"
 
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss"
-	"github.com/muesli/reflow/truncate"
+	"github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi"
 	"golang.org/x/text/runes"
 	"golang.org/x/text/transform"
 	"golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm"
@@ -46,7 +46,12 @@ func Truncate(maxWidth int, s string) string {
 	if maxWidth >= minWidthForEllipsis {
 		tail = ellipsis
 	}
-	r := truncate.StringWithTail(s, uint(maxWidth), tail)
+	// ansi.Truncate measures in grapheme clusters, the same unit lipgloss.Width
+	// uses in DisplayWidth above. Measuring the cut with a different width model
+	// than the one used to decide whether a cut is needed makes the result miss
+	// the budget: a rune-wise truncator reads an emoji ZWJ sequence as one wide
+	// character per person in it, so it stops several columns early.
+	r := ansi.Truncate(s, maxWidth, tail)
 	if DisplayWidth(r) < maxWidth {
 		r += " "
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/text/text_test.go b/pkg/text/text_test.go
index 37d02816..1606892f 100644
--- a/pkg/text/text_test.go
+++ b/pkg/text/text_test.go
@@ -163,6 +163,24 @@ func TestTruncate(t *testing.T) {
 			},
 			want: "\x1b[0;31mé́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́...\x1b[0m",
 		},
+		{
+			// A ZWJ sequence occupies two columns however many people are in it,
+			// so eight of the eleven are still available for the text after it.
+			name: "Emoji ZWJ sequence",
+			args: args{
+				max: 11,
+				s:   "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 family names here",
+			},
+			want: "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 famil...",
+		},
+		{
+			name: "Regional indicator pair",
+			args: args{
+				max: 11,
+				s:   "🇯🇵 Japanese README",
+			},
+			want: "🇯🇵 Japan...",
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -172,6 +190,40 @@ func TestTruncate(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTruncateFillsTheBudget(t *testing.T) {
+	// Truncate measures with DisplayWidth to decide whether a string is too
+	// wide, so the result has to be measured the same way: never wider than the
+	// budget, and never narrower than it once the string really was too long.
+	// Mixing two width models silently loses columns, which shows up as ragged
+	// table output for anyone whose text is not ASCII.
+	corpus := []string{
+		"hello world, a plain ascii string",
+		"テストテストテストテスト",
+		"幫新舉報違章工廠新增編號",
+		"프로젝트 내의",
+		"💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡",
+		"👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 family names here",
+		"🇯🇵 Japanese README",
+		"🏳️‍🌈 pride flag entry",
+		"👍🏽 thumbs up with a skin tone",
+		"❤️ reactions on issues",
+		"é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́é́́",
+		"\x1b[0;31mcoloured text that is long\x1b[0m",
+	}
+	for _, s := range corpus {
+		for maxWidth := 1; maxWidth <= 24; maxWidth++ {
+			got := Truncate(maxWidth, s)
+			gotWidth := DisplayWidth(got)
+			assert.LessOrEqual(t, gotWidth, maxWidth,
+				"Truncate(%d, %q) = %q is wider than the budget", maxWidth, s, got)
+			if DisplayWidth(s) > maxWidth {
+				assert.Equal(t, maxWidth, gotWidth,
+					"Truncate(%d, %q) = %q leaves columns unused", maxWidth, s, got)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestPadRight(t *testing.T) {
 	type args struct {
 		max int