Currently, the note in the Ranking Criteria reads as such:
This would imply that all full-width characters mustn't include standardised spacing, however in practice, this doesn't always work as intended. Some characters have more spacing than others, or next to none at all, which is why I propose a slight tweak to the wording:
This would open it up to interpretation and leave the choice in the hands of the mapper/BN and also remove confusion from those who think that full-width should always not be spaced.
All forms of artist and title standardisation apply to both the Romanised and Unicode fields, excluding standardised spaces for full-width characters.
This would imply that all full-width characters mustn't include standardised spacing, however in practice, this doesn't always work as intended. Some characters have more spacing than others, or next to none at all, which is why I propose a slight tweak to the wording:
All forms of artist and title standardisation apply to both the Romanised and Unicode fields, excluding standardised spaces for characters with sufficient spacing built-in.
This would open it up to interpretation and leave the choice in the hands of the mapper/BN and also remove confusion from those who think that full-width should always not be spaced.