diff --git a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbols.awk b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbols.awk
index e787a13..4b81054 100644
--- a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbols.awk
+++ b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbols.awk
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     for (i = 3; i < NF; ++i) {
         if ($i ~ /^[0-9]+$/) {
             j = match($0, "[ ]+" $(i-1) "[ ]+" $i " ")
-            print substr($0, 0, j - 1) "\u00a0" $(i-1) "\u00a0" $i
+            print substr($0, 0, j - 1) "·" $(i-1) "·" $i
             break
         }
     }
diff --git a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbolscmd.awk b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbolscmd.awk
index 8ba1586..84915c0 100644
--- a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbolscmd.awk
+++ b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/filesymbolscmd.awk
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 BEGIN {
-    n = split(ENVIRON["kak_text"], a, "\u00a0")
+    n = split(ENVIRON["kak_text"], a, "·")
     line = a[3]
     if (n == 3 && line ~ /^[0-9]+/) {
         pat = a[1]
diff --git a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbols.awk b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbols.awk
index 4f2e780..03ebce0 100644
--- a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbols.awk
+++ b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbols.awk
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     for (i = 3; i < NF; ++i) {
         if ($i ~ /^[0-9]+$/) {
             j = match($0, "[ ]+" $(i-1) "[ ]+" $i " ")
-            print substr($0, 0, j - 1) "\u00a0" $(i-1) "\u00a0" $i "\u00a0" $(i+1)
+            print substr($0, 0, j - 1) "·" $(i-1) "·" $i "·" $(i+1)
             break
         }
     }
diff --git a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbolscmd.awk b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbolscmd.awk
index cfa7d43..e994596 100644
--- a/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbolscmd.awk
+++ b/kakoune/.config/kak/scripts/projectsymbolscmd.awk
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 BEGIN {
-    n = split(ENVIRON["kak_text"], a, "\u00a0")
+    n = split(ENVIRON["kak_text"], a, "·")
     line = a[3]
     if (n == 4 && line ~ /^[0-9]+/) {
         pat = a[1]