Question - Languages with inconsistent spelling systems?

[zompist]

This sort of comment

Learn to spell and let the grown-ups do the talking, Zelos.
Edit: Actually, learn some decent English, for a change.

as well as the other one from Wattman about "you fail forever" (aleady deleted) is not acceptable.

[Ser]

Come to think of it, I don't think any language had a unified orthography before the age of widespread printed materials, and perhaps even electronic communication [the telegraph and stuff].

There are certainly institutions that can provide a standard, although even then, I'm not sure if there's any language where a standard is strictly followed... You see significant variation in English, Spanish, French, etc. (even with the existence of institutions that supposedly regulate the languages, e.g. how hardly printing quotations with «» isn't common in spite of what the Spanish Academies say, or how writing certain "forms" of Arabic verbs is common against what Arabic Academies say...), though perhaps nowhere near as much as before?