Improve by=<non-ASCII> test to be more robust

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Locate the existing non-ASCII by= test and review the context in #6559 and PR #6567. Replace or adjust the example so it runs on FreeBSD and verifies non-ASCII by= behavior there; done means the test no longer fails to run on that system.

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          Hmm, thanks. It still leaves us with the `else` branch here on FreeBSD where this is unanticipated / the behavior of `DT[,.N, by=año]` goes untested there. But let's start with un-breaking the test.

Originally posted by @MichaelChirico in https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/6567#discussion_r1797156053

As reported in #6559, the test will not run on FreeBSD. We should come up with an example that will test non-ASCII by= on such systems.

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