Is this a bug?

[Rannek]

you are welcome

there are many more tripwires, like UTF-8 <->ISO-8859-15 misconversion and so on

jfyi: another common mistake for bruteforce and masks with non asciii chars

when trying to crack non ascii chars like german umlauts äöü e.g. ö is HEX C3 B4, as hashcat works on bytesyized objects, to crack this "single" char, the mask for bruteforce has to be of length 2.

so for cracking "öl" the mask has to be of lenght 3. 2 for ö and 1 for standard ascii l which is one byte in size

Thanks for those awesome tips! I didn't know those facts before.