FcDirScan(3)

💖 FcDirScan(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the FcDirScan(3) page from the fontconfig manual — lowkey niche, highkey useful, and we're gonna vibe through it together. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

FcDirScan — scan a font directory without caching it. no cap, that's literally the whole assignment. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <fontconfig/fontconfig.h>

FcBool FcDirScan (FcFontSet *set, FcStrSet *dirs, FcFileCache *cache, FcBlanks *blanks, const FcChar8 *dir, FcBool force);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this function has a very specific mood. when cache is not zero, or when force is FcFalse, FcDirScan currently returns FcFalse. that's it. that's the vibe check. 🫠

otherwise, it scans an entire directory and adds all the fonts it finds to set. any subdirectories it finds get added to dirs. 🎀

and the big one, bestie: calling this function does not create any cache files. periodt. if you want caching, you use FcDirCacheRead() instead — iykyk. 💅

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✨ Fontconfig 2.17.0 — 27 June 2025 ✨ — that's the version and date, bestie. stan the footer. 🫶