Today, some creoles have got standardised spellings, whereas others are variably spelt depending on the writers' own preferences. Generally speaking, the main opposition is one between an etymologically oriented gallicised spelling tradition and a more phonologically oriented one. There is often a certain relation between political views and francophilia vs. francophobia and the choice of orthography, and the issue has in part become an ideological one. During the past decades, the latter system has gained ground at the expense of the former. They are in fact often only semi-standardised.
Practices usually vary even within the creolophone community in question.