# GetText.update\_pofiles: seeking help with error message

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-update-pofiles-seeking-help-with-error-message/94347>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 1, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-update-pofiles-seeking-help-with-error-message/94347 "2006-05-01T14:12:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![rapha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@rapha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rapha)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-update-pofiles-seeking-help-with-error-message/94347/1 "2006-05-01T14:12:55Z")

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Hi all!

Following the guide at [Peak Obsession](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/105),  
I’m trying to i18n a Rails application. However, when executing ‘rake  
updatepo’, I get the following error message:

```
"numeric literal without digits"

```

Searching Google and the mailing list archives yields only two hints.  
(1) install ruby 1.8.4 and (2) make sure there’s an empty line at the  
end of each file. Although I can’t seem to find the sense in the second  
one, I’ve made sure my

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**Author:** ![rapha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8dc957/32.png) [@rapha](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rapha)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gettext-update-pofiles-seeking-help-with-error-message/94347/2 "2006-05-01T14:18:13Z")

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Raphael S. wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> Following the guide at [Peak Obsession](http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/105),  
> I’m trying to i18n a Rails application. However, when executing ‘rake  
> updatepo’, I get the following error message:
> 
> ```
> "numeric literal without digits"
> 
> ```
> 
> Searching Google and the mailing list archives yields only two hints.  
> (1) install ruby 1.8.4 and (2) make sure there’s an empty line at the  
> end of each file. Although I can’t seem to find the sense in the second  
> one, I’ve made sure my

Follow-up: sorry for the double post. Still having issues with the new  
mac keyboard 🙂

Also, this post was meant to go to the Ruby on Rails list.

Sorry.