Invalid string literal in ASM

[dokutoku]

On Monday, 1 October 2018 at 10:45:25 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Monday, 1 October 2018 at 09:24:47 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 October 2018 at 08:14:07 UTC, dokutoku wrote:
>>> I get a compiler error when I try to put non-ASCII characters 
>>> in a string literal in the inline assembler.
>>>
>>> Is this part of the specifications?
>>
>> It's not clear, see https://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html#raw_data:
>>
>> "if an operand is a string literal, it is as if there were 
>> length operands, where length is the number of characters in 
>> the string"
>>
>> db "e"; // ok
>> db "é"; // error
>>
>> it seems that the second case should be accepted as db 195 db 
>> 169
>
> BUG imo. length is 2. "é" should be interpreted as the 2 bytes 
> of its data.
> Something with decoding is wrong here.

As a conclusion, is it OK to say DMD bug?