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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The rest of this document documents additional syntax used in Luau.
 
 ## String literals
 
-Luau implements support for hexadecimal (`\0x`), Unicode (`\u`) and `\z` escapes for string literals. This syntax follows [Lua 5.3 syntax](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.1):
+Luau implements support for hexadecimal (`\x`), Unicode (`\u`) and `\z` escapes for string literals. This syntax follows [Lua 5.3 syntax](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.1):
 
 - `\xAB` inserts a character with the code 0xAB into the string
 - `\u{ABC}` inserts a UTF8 byte sequence that encodes U+0ABC character into the string (note that braces are mandatory)