Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
  Vincent Massol wrote:
  The reason to choose ~ is because it's not a
character you use often
 (certainly less often than \ IMO). 
 Then is it a character found on most keyboards, for example russian
 keyboards? 
There is no ~ in standard russian keymap, so you have to switch to en.
But I agree with creole rationale. And I don't think this is a big problem.
+0 for ~.
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   Artem Melentyev