How To Avoid Url Decoding Of $location.url?

My angular $location I have an encoded URL such as var slug = 'test-test/7%2F8-test';. I am using $location.url(slug) to redirect but unfortunately it gets decoded when it comes t

Solution 1:

Use vanilla javascript?

document.location = "http://www.google.com/test%fdsfsd";

will maintain the '%' sign..