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JavaScript - Encode characters and URI malformed error

I recently have a bug, when I try to send into my node server a query search of the following:
!@#$%^&*()_+
I get an error on my Chrome:

{status: 500, message: "URI malformed"}
message: "URI malformed"
status: 500

After reading:
When are you supposed to use escape instead of encodeURI / encodeURIComponent?
Javascript decodeURI(Component) malformed uri exception
any way of making encodeURIComponent in javascript ignore certain characters?
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Javascript decodeURI(Component) malformed uri exception

My code still won't work for: !@#$%^&*()_+ when I wrap my string with encodeURIComponent and in the server do decodeURIComponent.
It also does not work with encodeURL.
If I do manually replace I get %2525 and it's not good.
Any idea how to solve it?
Thanks.

My code:

const endpoint = `${endpoint}&text=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`;
await fetch(endpoint);
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
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Eventually there was a bug on my server side. I tried to decode the '%' sign. Solved it by the following:

On the client:

const endpoint = `${endpoint}&text=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`;
await fetch(endpoint);

On the server:

decodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent(query.text))
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Report
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