Problem with cracking Office password that contains custom character

[jerkdavi]

Hello there,

I have an Excel file which I encrypted with a password that contains a letter from my native language (language: Croatian, letter 'č'). The letter 'č' is \xC4\x8D in UTF-8.
I pulled out the hash from the file with John the Ripper and saved it in the file that I named hash.txt. I moved the file hash.txt in my hashcat folder and entered this command:

Code:

hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 9600 -1 C4 -2 8D --hex-charset -o crack.txt hash.txt ?1?2 --session=name1 -D 1,2

The cracking finishes with the status Exhausted and it cannot find the password.
However, if I encrypt the same Excel file with a password that contains a letter from the English alphabet (e.g. letter 'c'), the password is cracked without problems with the next command.

Code:

hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 9600 -o crack.txt hash.txt ?l --session=name1 -D 1,2

If I generate MD5 hash for the same letter 'č', save it in the hash.txt file, place that file in my hashcat folder and enter this command:

Code:

hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 0 -1 C4 -2 8D --hex-charset -o crack.txt hash.txt ?1?2 --session=name1 -D 1,2 -O

The cracking finishes with the status cracked and the password is found.

Does anybody have any idea why the first command does not work for me?