## NAME

fc-validate - validate font files

## SYNOPSIS

fc-validate [ -Vhv ]

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

## DESCRIPTION

fc-validate validates font-file(s) if each fonts satisfies the language coverage according to the orthography files in fontconfig. If --index is given, only one face of each file is validated, otherwise all faces are validated.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-i Only query face indexed index of each file.

-l Set lang as a language instead of current locale. this is used for -m.

-v Show more detailed information.

-V Show version of the program and exit.

-h Show summary of options.

font-file Query font-file for font faces.

## RETURN CODES

fc-validate returns error code 0 for successful parsing, or 1 if any errors occured or if at least one font face could not be opened.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was updated by Akira TAGOH <akira@tagoh.org>.