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If you haven't tried yet, PowerToys' keyboard manager allows shortcuts for single character outputs.

That's what I do for accented characters (e.g. Alt+Shift+C -> ç) and currency characters, it works pretty decently (found it more reliable than AutoHotKey for instance)

I keep a second layout, the "US, alt. intl." (US international alternative?)even on computers without US keyboards, then use a hotkey such as win + space to swap between them and "\" becomes the backtick. Not only it's easy to write "~" but it's also easier to write upper case accented letters since it's just backtick + shift + vowel

This would be extremely useful, since phones typically add the correct accents automatically. But on my laptop I need to do this myself (using a deadkeys layout).

Using linux solves the issue though alt+ì = ~

there's also ÈÉÒÀÌÙ and a bunch of foreign letters like ßøþñħŋđðŧ