FC-VALIDATE(1)

💖 fc-validate(1) 💖

okay bestie, so fc-validate is the tool that checks your font files and tells you whether each one actually covers the languages it's supposed to. 🌸

✨ NAME ✨

fc-validate — validate font files 🎀

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

fc-validate [ -Vhv ]
 [  [ -i index ]  [ --index index ]  ]  [  [ -l lang ]  [ --lang lang ]
 ]  [ --verbose ]  [ --version ]  [ --help ]  font-file...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so fc-validate checks each font-file and sees if every font satisfies the language coverage, using the orthography files in fontconfig. 💅 If you pass --index, it only validates one face of each file. Otherwise it validates all the faces. iconic behaviour, honestly 😭

💜 OPTIONS 💜

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, so long options start with two dashes (-). Here's the summary of the options, bestie 🫶

• -i — only query the face indexed index of each file. 🔥
• -l — set lang as the language instead of the current locale. this is used for -m. 🌈
• -v — show more detailed information. 👀
• -V — show the version of the program and exit. ✨
• -h — show a summary of the options. 🍓
• font-file — query font-file for font faces. 🦋

👑 RETURN CODES 👑

fc-validate returns error code 0 for successful parsing. It returns 1 if any errors happened, or if at least one font face could not be opened. ⚠️ not the vibe, so check those codes 💀

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was updated by Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>. Huge thanks to them 🫶

that's a wrap, bestie! 💅 This is the FC-VALIDATE(1) page, last updated Sep 10, 2012, and it's giving main character energy 🌸✨