diff --git a/BREAKING-CHANGES.md b/BREAKING-CHANGES.md
index 475a8ee3..0fb54446 100644
--- a/BREAKING-CHANGES.md
+++ b/BREAKING-CHANGES.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ This is a quick summary of the sections below:
     feature is enabled
   - Disabling `default-features` suppresses the error message if `show_cursor()` fails when dropping
     `Terminal`
+  - Support a broader range for `unicode-width` version
 - [v0.29.0](#v0290)
   - `Sparkline::data` takes `IntoIterator<Item = SparklineBar>` instead of `&[u64]` and is no longer
     const
@@ -377,6 +378,17 @@ The `termwiz` backend is upgraded from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0.
 This release has a few fixes for hyperlinks and input handling, plus some dependency updates.
 See the [commits](https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/commits/main/termwiz) for more details.
 
+### Support a broader range for `unicode-width` version ([#1999])
+
+[#1999]: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/pull/1999
+
+Ratatui's dependency on `unicode-width`, previously pinned to 0.2.0, has
+expanded to allow version 0.2.1. This comes with 2 behavior changes described in
+[unicode-width#61] and [unicode-width#74].
+
+[unicode-width#61]: https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-width/pull/61
+[unicode-width#74]: https://github.com/unicode-rs/unicode-width/pull/74
+
 ## [v0.29.0](https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/releases/tag/v0.29.0)
 
 ### `Sparkline::data` takes `IntoIterator<Item = SparklineBar>` instead of `&[u64]` and is no longer const ([#1326])
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c2ff1d07..126d0346 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3732,9 +3732,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1fc81956842c57dac11422a97c3b8195a1ff727f06e85c84ed2e8aa277c9a0fd"
+checksum = "4a1a07cc7db3810833284e8d372ccdc6da29741639ecc70c9ec107df0fa6154c"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "untrusted"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f1aa8ea4..07aa1b8e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ trybuild = "1"
 unicode-segmentation = "1"
 unicode-truncate = { version = "2", default-features = false }
 # See <https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui/issues/1271> for information about why we pin unicode-width
-unicode-width = "=0.2.0"
+unicode-width = ">=0.2.0, <=0.2.1"
 
 # Improve benchmark consistency
 [profile.bench]