On the question of whether the characters can be read and understood, Chen Chao-jung says that if people today cannot read ancient scripts, it is probably because we lack sufficient information about the ancient writing system, and so do not understand it well enough. This is a gap in modern people's knowledge, rather than the fault of the ancient writing.
至於釋讀與否的問題，陳昭容表示，今人不認得古字，很可能是因為古文字的資料太少，對它的瞭解不足，這是今人知識不夠的問題，不是古文字之罪了。