google / google/fonts

Open Sans tilde glyph renders like minus or ndash at some sizes

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Tested on Windows Chrome and Edge browsers.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6521122/35792883-216288e6-0ab4-11e8-968f-1d2f311b9932.png)

At 13px, 10px, 9px and 7px the tilde (~) is rendered completely flat, like a minus or an ndash.

This can be misleading, as "~50%" (approximately fifty percent) has a very different meaning to "−50%" (negative fifty percent). Glyph hinting/instructions should be improved.

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