Ah, I'm relieved:

http://wiki.bitcomet.com/Peers,_seeds,_torrent,_tracker,_DHT,_Peer_Exchange_(PEX),_Magnet_Links
  The first implementations for Magnet Links required that the
  BitTorrent hash values contained in Magnet Links be Base32
  encoded.^[7] Later that was changed to hex encoding, which is the
  format recommended at this point for magnet links by the official
  BitTorrent specifications.^[8]
  [8] http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0009.html#magnet-uri-format