Why does a public 'byte' data type appear as a Boolean (check box) in Unity Editor?

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I need to use 'byte' in the form 2^8 = 0-255 for compatibility of values with hardware.

Why does the declaration of a variable with data type 'byte' appear as a boolean in the Unity editor?

Or how could I clamp an int32 to be 0-255?

I wish to use a single dimension array of values 0-255 for hardware compatibility.

Suggestions?

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There is no hardware unity supports which has byte limitations for single dimension arrays, not even if you target the iPhone 2g, the worst level of hardware supported I think.

Sure this isn't meant to be about a general coding in .NET and not in relation to Unity?

As for the question itself: Report a bug. Should definitely not appear as boolean but as normal text input field

in the meantime you can write a CustomEditor for your class which shows you a text field there to circumvent it