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-rw-r--r--src/gleam/string.gleam12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/gleam/string.gleam b/src/gleam/string.gleam
index 6c58135..2440e83 100644
--- a/src/gleam/string.gleam
+++ b/src/gleam/string.gleam
@@ -797,12 +797,8 @@ pub fn last(s: String) -> Option(String) {
/// ```
///
pub fn capitalize(s: String) -> String {
- let first =
- slice(s, 0, 1)
- |> uppercase
- let rest =
- slice(s, 1, length(s))
- |> lowercase
-
- append(to: first, suffix: rest)
+ case pop_grapheme(s) {
+ Ok(#(first, rest)) -> append(to: uppercase(first), suffix: lowercase(rest))
+ _ -> ""
+ }
}