diff --git a/server/Cargo.lock b/server/Cargo.lock
index 40cfdbafd..60f573e73 100644
--- a/server/Cargo.lock
+++ b/server/Cargo.lock
@@ -4771,8 +4771,7 @@ checksum = "d4c87d22b6e3f4a18d4d40ef354e97c90fcb14dd91d7dc0aa9d8a1172ebf7202"
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-truncate"
 version = "1.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5a5fbabedabe362c618c714dbefda9927b5afc8e2a8102f47f081089a9019226"
+source = "git+https://github.com/CommanderStorm/unicode-truncate.git?rev=5cc7798#5cc7798610e31b2738bfabb145f28926c405d411"
 dependencies = [
  "itertools",
  "unicode-width",
diff --git a/server/main-api/Cargo.toml b/server/main-api/Cargo.toml
index 69a29f235..5a653248e 100644
--- a/server/main-api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/server/main-api/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ rustls = { version = "0.23.5", default-features = false, features = ["ring"] } #
 
 cached = { version = "0.51.1", features = ["default", "async", "tokio", "disk_store"] }
 futures = "0.3.30"
-unicode-truncate = "1.0.0"
+# temporarily forked until https://github.com/Aetf/unicode-truncate/issues/16 is resolved
+unicode-truncate = { git = "https://github.com/CommanderStorm/unicode-truncate.git", rev = "5cc7798"}
 
 # database
 sqlx = { version = "0.7.4", features = ["postgres", "runtime-tokio", "tls-rustls", "migrate", "macros", "chrono"] }