diff --git a/zellij-server/src/panes/grid.rs b/zellij-server/src/panes/grid.rs
index 1382fc7a..88edb1ef 100644
--- a/zellij-server/src/panes/grid.rs
+++ b/zellij-server/src/panes/grid.rs
@@ -1193,6 +1193,10 @@ impl Grid {
     }
     pub fn add_character(&mut self, terminal_character: TerminalCharacter) {
         let character_width = terminal_character.width;
+        // Drop zero-width Unicode/UTF-8 codepoints, like for example Variation Selectors.
+        // This breaks unicode grapheme segmentation, and is the reason why some characters
+        // aren't displayed correctly. Refer to this issue for more information: 
+        //     https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/issues/1538
         if character_width == 0 {
             return;
         }