.FTL File Extension

Family Tree Legends allows users to integrate their data with other users. It also provides an online backup service called Real-Time Internet Backup. The software can import GEDCOM .GED files into FTL files using the import wizard.

Fluent is a localization system that allows developers to define how messages, terms, and other text included in a software program should be translated. Developers can use the text included in a program's Fluent Translation List, or FTL file, to guide translations and adapt a program's text for use in other languages.

Most importantly, Fluent allows developers to include information that may be important in one language but not in another. For example, while English does not use gendered nouns, many other languages do. In a program's FTL file, the program's developer can specify the gender of nouns referenced in the program, so a translator can gender the noun appropriately when translating.

FTL files are written like code, in that they contain variables which are defined and referenced throughout the file. These variables correspond to terms and messages used throughout a software program. Translators redefine an FTL file's variables in the language for which they are translating a program's text, in order to localize the program.

You can open and edit an FTL (Fluent Translation List) file in any source code editor, including:

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code (cross-platform)
• GitHub Atom (cross-platform)

To ensure your source code editor highlights Fluent Translation List syntax correctly, you should install Fluent (cross-platform).