Japanese input and hyphen in katakana (for long vowels)
 

Hi everyone, I installed japanese IMEs (anthy & mozc) and in both of them I did'n find a way to input the katakana hyphen (ー). can anyone enlighten me on the procedure.

In adition to it I'd like to suggest a wiki section on the various possibilities for japanese input and maybe an official/unified post about it. What do you think?

Re: Japanese input and hyphen in katakana (for long vowels)
 

How did you manage to get anthy and mozc working? It never seemed to work for me.

Re: Japanese input and hyphen in katakana (for long vowels)
 

I use anthy, not mozc. when I set katakana for input from the icons down below, is not the character you need the f key and the blue arrow key - ?.

@midori, just install metapackage from the repos
maemocjk-him-scim-anthy

Re: Japanese input and hyphen in katakana (for long vowels)
 

Woah, wait, so thats why the keyboard gets removed, when you install Anthy. Finally this makes sense. Thanks evan, youre awesome.
Finally i can write in japanese and gjiten is of use now.