Here's how to get it straight in this case.
I always wondered how you tell HashCat what codepage to assume for input when converting to Unicode. What if the password was ккккк (in Russian) or κκκκκ (in Greece)? They do look the same but they are totally different in UTF-16. And like ΩΩΩΩΩ and êêêêê, both can be represented by 0xEA in some 8-bit codepage.
Code:
$ echo ΩΩΩΩΩ | iconv -t cp437 | iconv -f cp1252
êêêêêI always wondered how you tell HashCat what codepage to assume for input when converting to Unicode. What if the password was ккккк (in Russian) or κκκκκ (in Greece)? They do look the same but they are totally different in UTF-16. And like ΩΩΩΩΩ and êêêêê, both can be represented by 0xEA in some 8-bit codepage.