[SOLVED] What is the encoding of this SHA256 hash in the Snakemake documentation?

What is the encoding of this SHA256 hash in the Snakemake documentation?

I'm used to seeing SHA256 hashes printed as hexadecimal, but how is this one encoded? u98a9cjsd98saud090923ßkpoasköf9ß32

This is from the Snakemake documentation, in this context:

A sha256 checksum can be compared as follows:

my_checksum = "u98a9cjsd98saud090923ßkpoasköf9ß32"

rule NAME:
    output:
        ensure("test.txt", sha256=my_checksum)
    shell:
        "somecommand {output}"

Is that not actually encoded at all and those are just the bytes of the hash? I'd expect it to be a bytes object and not a string, though.

Solution

Added in snakemake #1651, it seems like a mistake or an oversight. Perhaps just someone mashing keys on a German keyboard layout?

In snakemake #2987 I've changed this example to:

9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08

Which is the sha256 hex digest of the bytes b"test".