extra chars and mask files

[tracey mo]

Hi Atom, thanks for your help.
I think that the character encoding is the issue..

I've changed my terminal encoding ( export LANG="ISO-8859-15" )
and even attempted to change the hash files encoding ( iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-15 um.txt ->um15.txt )

but still no joy with the following command to catch a hash that should resovle to 'Äü':
./oclHashcat64.bin -m 7900 -1 üäöß?l -2 ÄÖÜ?u -3 €?s -a 3 um15.txt ?2?1

This also fails to catch it: ./oclHashcat64.bin -m 7900 -1 üäöß?l -2 ÄÖÜ?u -3 €?s -a 3 um15.txt Äü

Any encoding will still catch simple passwords with all digits, or all lowercase: ?d?d?d, ?1?1?1

I'm pretty new to this and fear I'm doing something boneheaded here..

If it's important, the site in question was origanally built on an American server, then transfered over to a German one. Passwords were created on each instance with German characters. And I can login no problem with the 'Äü' password.

If it helps at all I can post the hash.?