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11-13-2011, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
Hmm, you know that symbol is on the standard keyboard already, right?
Hmm, actually they are variants. In the typing program I use, ~ and ~ appear quite different. I don't know why, but ~ looks smaller than ~ in the program. On this forum, it's the opposite, though.

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Same with ー, which is after the 0 and before the + key on American keyboards.
Well, ー is part of the long vowels, so it's very easy to type. I knew that one ever since I started learning Japanese. What I'm trying to figure out is this one :



The symbol is widely used in both fictional works and dictionaries, so I think there should be a way to type them quickly. I'm thinking of creating my own input, but I don't know the term. Do you know how that symbol is called in Japanese?
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