diff --git a/filter/filter.go b/filter/filter.go
index 0c72023..d321bcb 100644
--- a/filter/filter.go
+++ b/filter/filter.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/viewport"
 	tea "github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea"
 	"github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss"
-	"github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi"
+	"github.com/rivo/uniseg"
 	"github.com/sahilm/fuzzy"
 )
 
@@ -211,28 +211,16 @@ func (m model) View() string {
 			continue
 		}
 
-		var buf strings.Builder
-		lastIdx := 0
-
-		// Use ansi.Truncate and ansi.TruncateLeft and ansi.StringWidth to
-		// style match.MatchedIndexes without losing the original option style:
+		var ranges []lipgloss.Range
 		for _, rng := range matchedRanges(match.MatchedIndexes) {
-			// fmt.Print("here ", lastIdx, rng, " - ", match.Str[rng[0]:rng[1]+1], "\r\n")
-			// Add the text before this match
-			if rng[0] > lastIdx {
-				buf.WriteString(ansi.Cut(styledOption, lastIdx, rng[0]))
-			}
-
-			// Add the matched character with highlight
-			buf.WriteString(m.matchStyle.Render(ansi.Cut(match.Str, rng[0], rng[1]+1)))
-			lastIdx = rng[1] + 1
+			// ansi.Cut is grapheme and ansi sequence aware, we match against a ansi.Stripped string, but we might still have graphemes.
+			// all that to say that rng is byte positions, but we need to pass it down to ansi.Cut as char positions.
+			// so we need to adjust it here:
+			start, stop := bytePosToVisibleCharPos(match.Str, rng)
+			ranges = append(ranges, lipgloss.NewRange(start, stop+1, m.matchStyle))
 		}
 
-		// Add any remaining text after the last match
-		buf.WriteString(ansi.TruncateLeft(styledOption, lastIdx, ""))
-
-		// Flush text buffer.
-		s.WriteString(lineTextStyle.Render(buf.String()))
+		s.WriteString(lineTextStyle.Render(lipgloss.StyleRanges(styledOption, ranges...)))
 
 		// We have finished displaying the match with all of it's matched
 		// characters highlighted and the rest filled in.
@@ -540,3 +528,26 @@ func matchedRanges(in []int) [][2]int {
 	out = append(out, current)
 	return out
 }
+
+func bytePosToVisibleCharPos(str string, rng [2]int) (int, int) {
+	bytePos, byteStart, byteStop := 0, rng[0], rng[1]
+	pos, start, stop := 0, 0, 0
+	gr := uniseg.NewGraphemes(str)
+	for byteStart > bytePos {
+		if !gr.Next() {
+			break
+		}
+		bytePos += len(gr.Str())
+		pos += max(1, gr.Width())
+	}
+	start = pos
+	for byteStop > bytePos {
+		if !gr.Next() {
+			break
+		}
+		bytePos += len(gr.Str())
+		pos += max(1, gr.Width())
+	}
+	stop = pos
+	return start, stop
+}
diff --git a/filter/filter_test.go b/filter/filter_test.go
index 56e7590..5840002 100644
--- a/filter/filter_test.go
+++ b/filter/filter_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package filter
 import (
 	"reflect"
 	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi"
 )
 
 func TestMatchedRanges(t *testing.T) {
@@ -39,3 +41,19 @@ func TestMatchedRanges(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestByteToChar(t *testing.T) {
+	stStr := "\x1b[90m\ue615\x1b[39m \x1b[3m\x1b[32mDow\x1b[0m\x1b[90m\x1b[39m\x1b[3wnloads"
+	str := " Downloads"
+	rng := [2]int{4, 7}
+	expect := "Dow"
+
+	if got := str[rng[0]:rng[1]]; got != expect {
+		t.Errorf("expected %q, got %q", expect, got)
+	}
+
+	start, stop := bytePosToVisibleCharPos(str, rng)
+	if got := ansi.Strip(ansi.Cut(stStr, start, stop)); got != expect {
+		t.Errorf("expected %+q, got %+q", expect, got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index eb17f5f..5f13653 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles v0.20.0
 	github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea v1.2.5-0.20241207142916-e0515bc22ad1
 	github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.8.0
-	github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.0
+	github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.1-0.20250110214317-ecc1bd014d51
 	github.com/charmbracelet/log v0.4.0
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.7.0
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/editor v0.1.0
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/muesli/reflow v0.3.0
 	github.com/muesli/roff v0.1.0
 	github.com/muesli/termenv v0.15.3-0.20241211131612-0d230cb6eb15
+	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7
 	github.com/sahilm/fuzzy v0.1.1
 	golang.org/x/text v0.21.0
 )
@@ -39,7 +40,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/muesli/ansi v0.0.0-20230316100256-276c6243b2f6 // indirect
 	github.com/muesli/cancelreader v0.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/muesli/mango v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.4.7 // indirect
 	github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.7.4 // indirect
 	github.com/yuin/goldmark-emoji v1.0.4 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20240613232115-7f521ea00fb8 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 7c0f230..776f9f4 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea v1.2.5-0.20241207142916-e0515bc22ad1 h1:osd3d
 github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea v1.2.5-0.20241207142916-e0515bc22ad1/go.mod h1:Hbk5+oE4a7cDyjfdPi4sHZ42aGTMYcmHnVDhsRswn7A=
 github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.8.0 h1:tPrjL3aRcQbn++7t18wOpgLyl8wrOHUEDS7IZ68QtZs=
 github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.8.0/go.mod h1:ViRgmKkf3u5S7uakt2czJ272WSg2ZenlYEZXT2x7Bjw=
-github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.0 h1:O7VkGDvqEdGi93X+DeqsQ7PKHDgtQfF8j8/O2qFMQNg=
-github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.0/go.mod h1:U5fy9Z+C38obMs+T+tJqst9VGzlOYGj4ri9reL3qUlo=
+github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.1-0.20250110214317-ecc1bd014d51 h1:f+0mEkhorXNiBaHb4V9wyd364OH/aF7md7ZngkS+1gU=
+github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v1.0.1-0.20250110214317-ecc1bd014d51/go.mod h1:QRGthpgH59/perglqXZC8xPHqDGZ9BB45ChJCFEWEMI=
 github.com/charmbracelet/log v0.4.0 h1:G9bQAcx8rWA2T3pWvx7YtPTPwgqpk7D68BX21IRW8ZM=
 github.com/charmbracelet/log v0.4.0/go.mod h1:63bXt/djrizTec0l11H20t8FDSvA4CRZJ1KH22MdptM=
 github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.7.0 h1:/QfFmiXOGGwN6fRbzvQaYp7fu1pkxpZ3qFBZWBsP404=