diff --git a/src/common/unicode/generate-unicode_east_asian_fw_table.pl b/src/common/unicode/generate-unicode_east_asian_fw_table.pl
index 2b2df375ed..125bd396a0 100644
--- a/src/common/unicode/generate-unicode_east_asian_fw_table.pl
+++ b/src/common/unicode/generate-unicode_east_asian_fw_table.pl
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ foreach my $line (<ARGV>)
 	chomp $line;
 	$line =~ s/\s*#.*$//;
 	next if $line eq '';
-	my ($codepoint, $width) = split ';', $line;
+	my ($codepoint, $width) = split /\s*;\s*/, $line;
 
 	if ($codepoint =~ /\.\./)
 	{