According to Tsao Feng-fu, a linguistic scholar and dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Tsing Hua University, "It would be ideal to have a single romanization system for all the different dialects of Chinese, but there are difficulties involved.
清華大學人文社會科學院院長，本身也為語言學家的曹逢甫教授則說，「能通用是一種理想，但現實上的確有困難，最多只能做到高度相容。」