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There is no tilde in Lucida's snapshot, but I would rate the font very low on the readability of the other characters. The other parameters (serif, form of the "g", etc) are of no importance to me if the first test fails.
Ah, I mentioned it a little while ago in another comment thread. Microsoft bundled it with older versions of Office and Windows, and is included in their TrueType Font Pack[1]
