Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 12:54:11 +0900
> 
> > You said you could get the error with M-x eval-buffer, right? Perhaps
> > just doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error before that will get the
> > backtrace (which should include the buffer position of the offending
> > ")").
> 
> 
> The problematic "region" is:
> 
> (require 'package)
> 
> Weird, right ?

Crystal ball says that you are using a fontconfig version that resets
LC_NUMERIC when Emacs doesn't expect.  See bug#30788.

You didn't say what version of Emacs are you using, but if it doesn't
include the fix for that problem, that's the most probable reason.