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National Hexadecimal Literals

National hexadecimal literals have the following format:

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Format

>>-NX"--hexadecimal-character-sequence--"----------------------><

NX"
The opening delimiter for a national hexadecimal literal.
"
The closing delimiter for a national hexadecimal literal.

The hexadecimal character sequence consists of groups of four hexadecimal digits that map to a Universal Character Set Version 2 (UCS-2) or Unicode character.

The maximum length of national hexadecimal literals is 512 national characters.

ALL followed by a national hexadecimal literal is a national hexadecimal literal.

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