Mix of single and multi byte in wordlist

Hi,

Royce has written a good post ( https://security.stackexchange.com/quest...-passwords ) to deal with accented letters, german here.

i am wondering how to deal with wordlists and rules  ; no -a 3 mode.

Should I convert all my items from my german wordlist to hexadecimal and then specify --hex-charset ?
Or is there another way to deal with accented letters in wordlists  ? Which are a mix of single and multi byte.

Thank you.