由於長期缺乏母語教育，多數臺灣人書寫母語嗰陣時，都會用現代標準漢語中音義相似嘅字詞或者注音符號來代替書寫，導致民間嘅臺語文用字非常之混亂，但係基本嘅「約定俗成」係存在嘅。西元2009年，臺灣教育部公佈700個臺灣閩南語推薦用字並架設臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典畀大眾學習參考使用。雖然呢批推薦用字嘅準確性時有爭議，但佢為臺語文嘅標準化提供重大嘅突破，臺語文嘅規範亦因此越來越統一。
Due to the long-term lack of mother tongue education, most Taiwan people will use words or phonetic symbols with similar sounds in modern standard Chinese to replace writing when writing their mother tongue, resulting in very confusing Taiwanese characters in the folk, but the basic "conventions" exist. In 2009, the Ministry of Education of Taiwan released 700 recommended words for Taiwan's Hokkien language and set up a dictionary of commonly used words in Taiwan's Hokkien for the public to learn and use. Although the accuracy of these recommended words was controversial from time to time, he provided a major breakthrough in the standardization of the Taiwanese language, and the norms of the Taiwanese language became more and more unified.