Guide · Financial Services & Insurance · By the AutoScribble Team · Published 22 September 2026
Local dates, currency and numbers on video
Short answer
Write figures the way your audience reads them: £ and day-month-year for UK viewers, € with comma decimals for most of Europe, lakh and crore for Indian and Pakistani audiences, year-month-day for Chinese and Japanese. AutoScribble's language settings follow these conventions, but the numbers in your script are what gets spoken — so write them correctly.
Who this guide is for
Finance, pricing and product teams presenting figures to international audiences. It's part of our financial services & insurance resources.
What you'll need
- The figures to present
- Each audience's currency and date style
Step by step
- 1
Write figures locally
‘1.250,00 €’ in German, ‘₹5 lakh’ in Hindi, ‘2026年9月22日’ in Japanese.
- 2
Round for speech
Spoken figures should be simple: ‘about two million’ beats ‘1,987,432’.
- 3
Label on screen
Show the key number once, big and short.
- 4
Check with a local reader
Wrong separators or date order confuse viewers.
Illustrative conventions
| Audience | Money | Date |
|---|---|---|
| UK | £1,250 | 22/09/2026 |
| Germany | 1.250 € | 22.09.2026 |
| India | ₹12.5 lakh | 22-09-2026 |
| Japan | ¥125,000 | 2026年9月22日 |
Illustrative example written for this guide.
Copy the AutoScribble prompt
Complete prompt
Create a 60-second landscape whiteboard explainer in German showing the price change below. Use € with comma decimals and day.month.year dates, show only one figure per scene, and use Sie. [Paste figures and context here]
Common mistakes
- US date order for UK audiences
- Unconverted currency
- Too many figures per scene
Review before publishing
- A fluent speaker of the target language has read the script aloud
- Names, numbers, dates and currency follow local convention
- On-screen words are short and spelt correctly in the finished video
- Narration and script are in the same language — no mixed recordings
- The video still fits the length you chose once narrated
Questions
Does AutoScribble convert currency?
No. Write the figures you want spoken and shown; the language setting guides formatting style only.
Can I use Eastern Arabic digits?
Yes, in Arabic and Urdu scripts; they're understood when timing the script.