In HBase, i have a column qualifier in which i have a data like below: ReportV10\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x02\x02 When i am reading this table from spark using shc connect, i am getting junk characters in result. Below is the piece of code i am using to read a HBase table: catalog='''{ "table":{"namespace":"db1","name":"tb1"}, "rowkey":"key", "columns":{ "rowkey":{"cf":"rowkey","col":"key","type":"string"}, "nf_hh0":{"cf":"nf","col":"hh0","type":"string"} } }''' df=spark.read.option("catalog",catalog).format("org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.hbase").load() df.show(1,False) +------------------------------------------------+ | rowkey                          | nf_hh0                |  +---------------------------+------------------- + |26273707950926220...|ReportV10��   | +---------------------------+--------------------+ Spark version: 2.3.2.3.1.0.319-3 HBase version: 2.0.2.3.1.0.319-3 Python version: 2.7.5 Question: Is there any way to read those hexadecimal escape sequences as it is in a dataframe. ... View more