HashCat and german (or other exotic) passwords? Help please.

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Here's a nice blog post about your problem: http://blog.bitcrack.net/2013/09/crackin...guage.html

Of course, this is only a problem when it comes to masks. If you use wordlists (with or without rules) you don't need to care, you just need to convert your wordlist to the correct encoding.