how is --hex-wordlist supposed to function?

[undeath]

indeed that doesn't seem to work.

Code:

echo 'otoño' | hashcat -m 1000 bc4a371bba2211148ebcdee649c561fc

and

Code:

echo 'otoño' | hashcat -m 1000 bc4a371bba2211148ebcdee649c561fc --encoding-from=utf-8

can't crack the hash.

but you can workaround it using mode 900:

Code:

echo 'otoño' | hashcat -m 900 bc4a371bba2211148ebcdee649c561fc --encoding-from=utf-8 --encoding-to=utf-16le

this will crack the hash

No idea how to get mode 1000 to work correctly though.