Re: bytes range

[Doug Cutting]

Owen O'Malley wrote:
Looking at the Avro spec, it isn't clear if bytes are signed or 
unsigned. What is the intent?

Good question.  Unsigned, when it matters.  Places where it matters are:

 - default values.  Here we map unicode code points to unsigned bytes.

 - sort ordering.  Here we compare byte values as unsigned.

I've updated https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-294 to clarify 
these points.

Doug