SHA1 Hash in BitTorrent is not text

Question

I am learning how the bitTorrent and Bencoded dictionary of bitTorrent. But I don't understand how the pieces are encoded in SHA-1 in the torrent metainfo file. As from my knowledge SHA-1 hash is look like this aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d, but instead it look like this KÅ•Š8yç=¾4f¯gBûõÿm¶¤lâFiÔ Somebody tell me what is this?

Answer 1

No, your assumption is wrong. SHA-1 doesn't "look like this aaf4c61ddcc5e8a2dabede0f3b482cd9aea9434d" as hash functions returns just list of bytes. What you have seen as KÅ•Š8yç=¾4f¯gBûõÿm¶¤lâFiÔ is just output of that function which your viewer tries to output as a text, which obviously fails.