Rule generater generates unusable rule
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Could someone explain the following issue to me?

I did the following command which completed succesfully:

hashcat-6.2.5/hashcat.bin -m 0 -a 0 hashes.md5 wordlist.dic --generate-rules=6000000 --generate-rules-func-min=1 --generate-rules-func-max=30 --debug-mode=1 --debug-file=stats.txt --potfile-disable -o found.txt

The stats.txt file now contains all rules that succesfully found a password.
However a few rules in the stats.txt are unsupported when I put them in a rulefile.

It seems the rules that aren't working have some non-ascii characters.
One example is:

O43 [ 3?A

The question-mark isn't an actual question-mark when looking at the hex:
4f3433205b2033ff41

I assume this is something with formatting, but since rules don't have any --hex parameter I am not entirely sure how to fix this (be able to use it in a rulefile).

I used the latest hashcat release version.

I tried searching the forum, but either my searching skills failing me or no one asked this question before.
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Rule generater generates unusable rule - by Toetje - 02-21-2022, 04:37 PM