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 FC-VALIDATE(1)                                               FC-VALIDATE(1)
                                Sep 10, 2012



 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 occurred or if at least one font face could not be opened.

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














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