Custom charset

[Flyinghaggis]

If you do not know how your shell escaping works, just use a file: https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=mas...rset_files

I have had a look at that previously and edit a couple of them with my input but the
output in the candidates #1 and #2 is in hex I have also tried it like this

-1 ~!@#$%^`123456" -2 qwertyQWERTY

but the error I get is If you specify a custom charset, you must also specify a mask. Hence the previous reading of the wiki and after some trial and error came up with 

--custom-charset1=~!@#$%^`123456

for which I only get a portion of the quesses.  I see from the wiki there is a reference to 
use iconv and similar tools to convert the files to a language specific file encoding - How would I get a hold
of one of these tools?, also could you point me to a good shell escaping tutorial

Cancel all of the above - I have worked out the solution and all appears to be fine now.