Illustrator save as SVG: losing character tracking information

Hello,
I'm trying to save two different versions of a certain SVG using Illustrator.
The sole difference between the two versions is that a certain text element's tracking attribute was set.
It seems though that Illustrator is completely ignoring the new attribute (the two resulting SVG files are almost the same - there are some negligible position differences) which in effect causes the resulting SVG to display incorrectly.
The relevant text element is saved as a single element in which case I assume the tracking (letter-spacing in SVG) is most relevant (as opposed to outputting the text by wrapping each character in a in which case the tspan's position could be used to implement the tracking implicitly).
Am I missing something in regards to saving as SVG from Illustrator?
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Hi Ianmcarey,
Thanks for the detailed Explanation. We will investigate this Requirement of Exporting Character style classes in the SVG code.
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