title: What are the non-hex characters in HBase Shell RowKey?
body: <p>I am saving my key as a byte-array.  In HBase Shell when I look at my key I see non-hex values...I do not have any encoding enabled, I do not have any compression enabled.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a sample...what is VNQ?  what is BBW?  I'm guessing there is some sort of encoding going on?</p>
  
  <pre><code>\xFB\xC6\xE8\x03\xF0VNQ\x8By\xF6\x89D\xC1\xBBW\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\xF3\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x07\xA1\x1F
  </code></pre>