What is PSON in puppet and how is it different from JSON

Question

While going through an online puppet tutrorial i came across PSON. What is this and how is it different from JSON?

Answer 1

PSON is a variant of JSON which puppet uses for serializing data to transmit across the network or store on disk. 

JSON requires that the serialized form is valid unicode (usually UTF-8).

A PSON string is a sequence of 8-bit ASCII encoded data. It must start and end with “(ASCII 0x22) characters.

Puppet uses the MIME types “pson” and “text/pson” to refer to PSON.