Port fix for npm purls with special characters

[sahibamittal]

Description

Fixes URISyntaxExceptions during repository metadata analysis, when NPM PURLs contain special characters.

Addressed Issue

Backport change #1190

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Coverage variation	Diff coverage
✅ +2.67% (target: -1.00%)	✅ 100.00% (target: 70.00%)

Coverage variation details

	Coverable lines	Covered lines	Coverage
Common ancestor commit (8d9e628)	172	140	81.40%
Head commit (c5508bf)	6739 (+6567)	5665 (+5525)	84.06% (+2.67%)

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Diff coverage details

	Coverable lines	Covered lines	Diff coverage
Pull request (#1309)	3	3	100.00%

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