diff --git a/Sources/DashUIKit/Components/NumericKeyboardView.swift b/Sources/DashUIKit/Components/NumericKeyboardView.swift
index 1950fa4..aa9c141 100644
--- a/Sources/DashUIKit/Components/NumericKeyboardView.swift
+++ b/Sources/DashUIKit/Components/NumericKeyboardView.swift
@@ -18,11 +18,25 @@
 import Foundation
 import SwiftUI
 
-enum NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport {
-    static func decimalSeparator(for locale: Locale) -> String {
+/// The keypad's input rules, shared by the on-screen buttons and by hosts that
+/// route a physical keyboard into the same value.
+///
+/// `NumericKeyboardView` renders buttons and installs no text responder, so a
+/// host that wants hardware-keyboard support has to supply its own responder.
+/// It must not reimplement the rules while doing so: `applyKeyPress` owns the
+/// locale-sensitive parts (which separator is decimal, which is grouping and
+/// therefore dropped, single decimal separator, delete), and
+/// `key(forTyped:locale:)` translates a typed character into the key the
+/// on-screen keypad would have sent.
+public enum NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport {
+    public static func decimalSeparator(for locale: Locale) -> String {
         locale.decimalSeparator ?? "."
     }
 
+    /// The key the delete button sends; a host's Backspace handling passes this
+    /// to `applyKeyPress`.
+    public static var deleteKey: String { Layout.deleteKey }
+
     static func rows(showDecimalSeparator: Bool, locale: Locale) -> [[String]] {
         let lastRow: [String]
         if showDecimalSeparator {
@@ -39,7 +53,33 @@ enum NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport {
         ]
     }
 
-    static func applyKeyPress(
+    /// Translates a character typed on a physical keyboard into the key the
+    /// on-screen keypad would have sent, or `nil` when the keypad has no such
+    /// key. Feed the result to `applyKeyPress`.
+    ///
+    /// A hardware decimal key stands for whatever this locale's decimal
+    /// separator is — a German layout emits "," and a US layout ".". The one
+    /// character deliberately passed through unchanged is the locale's
+    /// grouping separator, because dropping it is `applyKeyPress`'s rule to
+    /// apply, not this method's to duplicate.
+    public static func key(forTyped character: Character, locale: Locale) -> String? {
+        if let digit = character.wholeNumberValue, (0 ... 9).contains(digit) {
+            return String(digit)
+        }
+
+        guard character == "." || character == "," else { return nil }
+
+        let typed = String(character)
+        let groupingSeparator = locale.groupingSeparator ?? ","
+        let decimalSeparator = decimalSeparator(for: locale)
+
+        if typed == groupingSeparator, groupingSeparator != decimalSeparator {
+            return typed
+        }
+        return decimalSeparator
+    }
+
+    public static func applyKeyPress(
         value: String,
         key: String,
         showDecimalSeparator: Bool,
diff --git a/Tests/DashUIKitTests/NumericKeyboardLocaleSupportTests.swift b/Tests/DashUIKitTests/NumericKeyboardLocaleSupportTests.swift
index 1b566c8..c845c8f 100644
--- a/Tests/DashUIKitTests/NumericKeyboardLocaleSupportTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/DashUIKitTests/NumericKeyboardLocaleSupportTests.swift
@@ -101,4 +101,60 @@ final class NumericKeyboardLocaleSupportTests: XCTestCase {
         XCTAssertEqual(afterGroupingSeparator, "1234")
         XCTAssertEqual(afterDelete, "123")
     }
+
+    func testTypedCharacterMapsToTheKeyTheKeypadWouldSend() {
+        let enUS = locale("en_US")
+        XCTAssertEqual(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: "0", locale: enUS), "0")
+        XCTAssertEqual(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: "9", locale: enUS), "9")
+        XCTAssertNil(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: "a", locale: enUS))
+        XCTAssertNil(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: "-", locale: enUS))
+        XCTAssertNil(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: " ", locale: enUS))
+    }
+
+    func testTypedDecimalKeyFollowsTheLocale() {
+        XCTAssertEqual(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: ".", locale: locale("en_US")), ".")
+        XCTAssertEqual(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: ",", locale: locale("de_DE")), ",")
+
+        // Neither separator in this locale (`de_CH` groups with "’"), so the
+        // key still means "decimal" rather than being dropped.
+        let deCH = locale("de_CH")
+        XCTAssertNotEqual(deCH.groupingSeparator, ",")
+        XCTAssertEqual(NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: ",", locale: deCH), ".")
+    }
+
+    /// The grouping separator is handed through unchanged so `applyKeyPress`
+    /// can drop it — typing "1,000" in `en_US` must not become "1.000".
+    func testTypingAGroupedAmountKeepsItsMagnitude() {
+        let locale = locale("en_US")
+        var value = ""
+
+        for character in "1,000.5" {
+            guard let key = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: character, locale: locale) else { continue }
+            value = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.applyKeyPress(
+                value: value,
+                key: key,
+                showDecimalSeparator: true,
+                locale: locale
+            )
+        }
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(value, "1000.5")
+    }
+
+    func testTypingAGroupedAmountKeepsItsMagnitudeInAGermanLocale() {
+        let locale = locale("de_DE")
+        var value = ""
+
+        for character in "1.000,5" {
+            guard let key = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: character, locale: locale) else { continue }
+            value = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.applyKeyPress(
+                value: value,
+                key: key,
+                showDecimalSeparator: true,
+                locale: locale
+            )
+        }
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(value, "1000,5")
+    }
 }
diff --git a/docs/buttons-and-inputs.md b/docs/buttons-and-inputs.md
index 8fd8e2a..8e8715d 100644
--- a/docs/buttons-and-inputs.md
+++ b/docs/buttons-and-inputs.md
@@ -134,7 +134,36 @@ NumericKeyboardView(
 )
 ```
 
-Key-press logic lives in `NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport` (internal, unit-testable):
+Key-press logic lives in `NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport` (public, unit-testable):
 appends digits, inserts at most one decimal separator (only when `showDecimalSeparator`),
 ignores the grouping separator, and `⌫` removes the last character. The action button is
 enabled only when `value` is non-empty **and** `actionEnabled` is true.
+
+### Hardware keyboards
+
+The pad is made of buttons and installs no text responder, so a physical keyboard reaches
+it only if the host adds one. Route those keystrokes through the same rules rather than
+reimplementing them — a second copy is how `1,000` typed in `en_US` turns into `1.000`:
+
+```swift
+// In the host's `UIKeyInput` responder.
+override func insertText(_ text: String) {
+    for character in text {
+        guard let key = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.key(forTyped: character, locale: locale) else { continue }
+        value = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.applyKeyPress(
+            value: value, key: key, showDecimalSeparator: true, locale: locale
+        )
+    }
+}
+
+override func deleteBackward() {
+    value = NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.applyKeyPress(
+        value: value, key: NumericKeyboardLocaleSupport.deleteKey, showDecimalSeparator: true, locale: locale
+    )
+}
+```
+
+`key(forTyped:locale:)` returns `nil` for characters the pad has no key for. A typed `.` or
+`,` maps to the locale's decimal separator, except when it *is* the locale's grouping
+separator — that one is passed through so `applyKeyPress` drops it, exactly as a tapped key
+would be.