mavericks - How to write out a NORMAL tilde sign (~) in Mac?

I switched to Mac recently. The only thing that's disturbing me until now is the missing of the tilde sign (~). The closest thing I achieved to this sign is the accent tilde (˜).

macos - How to write a tilde (~) character in Emacs on Mac OS X?

I'm used to write a ~ character by pressing Alt+N on Mac OS X. This does not work in Emacs. Alt+N key seems to be bind to the command history.

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