The Slice built‑in types are mapped to Ruby types as shown in
Table 22.1.
Although Ruby supports arbitrary precision in its integer types, the Ice run time validates integer values to ensure they have valid ranges for their declared Slice types.
String values returned as the result of a Slice operation (including return values, out parameters, and data members) contain UTF-8 encoded strings unless the program has installed a string converter, in which case string values use the converter’s native encoding instead. See
Section 28.23 for more information on string converters.
As string input values for a remote Slice operation, Ice accepts nil in addition to
String objects; each occurrence of
nil is marshaled as an empty string. Ice assumes that all
String objects contain valid UTF-8 encoded strings unless the program has installed a string converter, in which case Ice assumes that
String objects use the native encoding expected by the converter.
