From 9c9bb29104893c142ce4148a27832457db4d5509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ponnuri Pavan Kumar <pavankumar.prrp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:22:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Improve capitalize(): add Unicode support and handle
 leading spaces

---
 strings/capitalize.py | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/strings/capitalize.py b/strings/capitalize.py
index 628ebffc8852..21f032779acd 100644
--- a/strings/capitalize.py
+++ b/strings/capitalize.py
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
 def capitalize(sentence: str) -> str:
     """
-    Capitalizes the first letter of a sentence or word.
+    Capitalizes the first alphabetical character of a sentence.
 
+    Examples:
     >>> capitalize("hello world")
     'Hello world'
-    >>> capitalize("123 hello world")
-    '123 hello world'
-    >>> capitalize(" hello world")
-    ' hello world'
-    >>> capitalize("a")
-    'A'
+    >>> capitalize("  hello world")
+    '  Hello world'
+    >>> capitalize("123 abc")
+    '123 abc'
+    >>> capitalize("ñandú bird")
+    'Ñandú bird'
     >>> capitalize("")
     ''
     """
+
     if not sentence:
         return ""
 
-    # Capitalize the first character if it's a lowercase letter
-    # Concatenate the capitalized character with the rest of the string
-    return sentence[0].upper() + sentence[1:]
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    from doctest import testmod
+    # Find the first alphabetic character and capitalize it
+    for idx, char in enumerate(sentence):
+        if char.isalpha():
+            return sentence[:idx] + char.upper() + sentence[idx+1:]
 
-    testmod()
+    # If no alphabetic character exists, return the original string
+    return sentence

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From: "pre-commit-ci[bot]"
 <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:55:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci
---
 strings/capitalize.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/strings/capitalize.py b/strings/capitalize.py
index 21f032779acd..4759e88a84db 100644
--- a/strings/capitalize.py
+++ b/strings/capitalize.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def capitalize(sentence: str) -> str:
     # Find the first alphabetic character and capitalize it
     for idx, char in enumerate(sentence):
         if char.isalpha():
-            return sentence[:idx] + char.upper() + sentence[idx+1:]
+            return sentence[:idx] + char.upper() + sentence[idx + 1 :]
 
     # If no alphabetic character exists, return the original string
     return sentence