he/him 
It's also why in some fonts the ASCII tilde character is raised to the top.pic.twitter.com/4iz0vBZ7X2
TIL the tilde (~) key on modern computers came from Portuguese mechanical typewriters for the letters ñãõ.
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TIL too, I'd have swore it came from Spanish but we don't need to use it on its own, it's only used with ñ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde
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we don't use ñ in Portuguese. That's Spanish
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Oops yes, looks like i misread. Only ã, Ã, õ, and Õ.
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In medieval times in Spain they used ñ instead of nn to save space in manuscripts. Portuguese use nh for the same sound, french ng
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and _ was for underlining words
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~ nice ~
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