10-18-2012, 09:36 AM
seems like you just answered your own question. hashcat is agnostic about the encoding of your dictionary file, it handles each word as a stream of bytes. the reason you cannot see the passwords in the terminal is because, as you state, the terminal does not support that encoding. either use a different terminal, or use -o to save the plains to a text file which you can then open in e.g. wordpad.