diff --git a/src/engraving/dom/chordlist.cpp b/src/engraving/dom/chordlist.cpp
index 29da82903e278..412bb6d9f77df 100644
--- a/src/engraving/dom/chordlist.cpp
+++ b/src/engraving/dom/chordlist.cpp
@@ -1784,8 +1784,7 @@ void ChordList::write(XmlWriter& xml) const
                 if (s.code.isNull()) {
                     xml.tag("sym", { { "name", s.name }, { "value", s.value } });
                 } else {
-                    // write hex numbers with a "0x" prefix, so they can convert back properly on read
-                    xml.tag("sym", { { "name", s.name }, { "code", u"0x" + String::number(s.code.unicode(), 16) } });
+                    xml.tag("sym", { { "name", s.name }, { "code", String::number(s.code.unicode(), 16) } });
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/engraving/dom/page.cpp b/src/engraving/dom/page.cpp
index cc89e3ccd6d61..a63654c8fd153 100644
--- a/src/engraving/dom/page.cpp
+++ b/src/engraving/dom/page.cpp
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ String Page::replaceTextMacros(const String& s) const
                 } else {
                     int rev = score()->mscoreRevision();
                     if (rev > 99999) { // MuseScore 1.3 is decimal 5702, 2.0 and later uses a 7-digit hex SHA
-                        d += String::number(rev, 16);
+                        d += String::number(rev, 16).remove(u"0x");
                     } else {
                         d += String::number(rev, 10);
                     }
diff --git a/src/framework/global/types/string.cpp b/src/framework/global/types/string.cpp
index 5b546d7149f63..dcec54a2f8db0 100644
--- a/src/framework/global/types/string.cpp
+++ b/src/framework/global/types/string.cpp
@@ -1265,11 +1265,22 @@ unsigned int String::toUInt(bool* ok, int base) const
 String String::number(int n, int base)
 {
     std::stringstream stream;
-    if (base == 16) {
-        stream << std::hex;
+    switch (base) {
+    case 16: stream << std::hex;
+        break;
+    case 10: stream << std::dec;
+        break;
+    case 8: stream << std::oct;
+        break;
     }
     stream << n;
-    std::string s = stream.str();
+    std::string s =  stream.str();
+    switch (base) {
+    case 16: s = "0x" + s;
+        break;
+    case 8: s = "0" + s;
+        break;
+    }
     return fromAscii(s.c_str(), s.size());
 }