could not enter transaction amount over 999

I was not able to reproduce that. What platform do you run HB on? x86 32 or 64bits? PPC?
I which list can't you see the amount?

2.6.22-14-generic ubuntu 7.10 i386

cannot see any nmbers in all lists
in list of transactions for account
in list of accounts for wallet

just creating new wallet, account and trying to make transaction 10000

checked for rubbles (ru locale) and for default with "C" locale and LANG

Could you provide me your $HOME/.homebank/preferences file ?

[General]
Version=0.2
BarStyle=0
ColorExp=13523968
ColorInc=5151286
ColorWarn=10747904
WalletPath=/home/lig
ImportPath=/home/lig
ColumnsOpe=true;true;true;true;true;true;true;true;true;

[Windows]
Wal=0;28;1280;754;
Acc=0;28;1280;754;
Sta=0;28;945;480;
Ove=0;0;640;480;
Bud=0;292;945;480;
Car=0;28;712;480;

[Format]
DateFmt=%x
PreSymbol=
SufSymbol=руб
DecChar=.
GroupChar=
FracDigits=2
UKUnits=false

[Filter]
DefRange=7

[Euro]
Active=false
Country=0
ChangeRate=1
PreSymbol=
SufSymbol=??
DecChar=.
GroupChar=\s
FracDigits=2

[Report]
StatByAmount=true
StatDetail=true
StatRate=true
BudgDetail=true

The problem seems to come from the grouping char.
Could you send me this file by email (create a tar.gz for exemple) this is to preserve your char encoding.

Also could you give me the result of a export | grep 'LANG'.

Thanks.

here it is

Ok, when I use your preference file i have pango error message teling me anbout invalid UTF8.
It seems to come from the grouping char.

What character have you set for grouping char ? It seems to be a space, but pango tell me it is \xe ?
Maybe it is because this widget can only contain 1 char and you have tried topaste a more complex utf8 char.

Please try to change this grouping char in HB preferences by a single space, and the things will display right.

it's a magic!
all works fine now.

thank you for your help and keep up the good work!