Thanks for creating and sharing the new public channel. I am able to reproduce the behavior:
thingSpeakRead(206990, 'outputFormat', 'table')
ans =
1×2 timetable array
Timestamps x x_1
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As you mentioned, non-Ascii characters are not supported for column names by the existing functionality. We will consider adding this to a future release of thingSpeakRead. Thanks again for sharing your use case.