Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 8, 2018, at 2:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

I'm using master that I regularly build.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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