diff --git a/src/core/core_utils.js b/src/core/core_utils.js
index 0f81422e8fecb..58c721f387283 100644
--- a/src/core/core_utils.js
+++ b/src/core/core_utils.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import {
   AnnotationEditorPrefix,
   assert,
   BaseException,
+  hexNumbers,
   objectSize,
   stringToPDFString,
   Util,
@@ -634,10 +635,7 @@ function stringToUTF16HexString(str) {
   const buf = [];
   for (let i = 0, ii = str.length; i < ii; i++) {
     const char = str.charCodeAt(i);
-    buf.push(
-      ((char >> 8) & 0xff).toString(16).padStart(2, "0"),
-      (char & 0xff).toString(16).padStart(2, "0")
-    );
+    buf.push(hexNumbers[(char >> 8) & 0xff], hexNumbers[char & 0xff]);
   }
   return buf.join("");
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/util.js b/src/shared/util.js
index b61a58abc19d0..341f26c0bfd75 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.js
+++ b/src/shared/util.js
@@ -1149,6 +1149,7 @@ export {
   getModificationDate,
   getUuid,
   getVerbosityLevel,
+  hexNumbers,
   IDENTITY_MATRIX,
   ImageKind,
   info,