The general consensus of my SEO peers is that approximate 15% of link juice is lost in the redirect and I second what Richard has recommended.
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Best posts made by irvingw
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RE: Updating inbound links vs. 301 redirecting the page they link to
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RE: Trying to find all internal links to a specific page (without index)
Download XENU - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html - run a crawl of your site and right click the properties of any page to see all internal links linking to that page.
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RE: Are links with space considered to be the same as links with %20?
http://www.example.com/test page.html will be converted to %20 so it could be interpreted as the same page
All three could be considered spaces, I wouldn't use any of them.