readCitationFile encoding

Hi,

does anybody know, how to enforce a certain encoding for
readCitationFile()? Haven't found any usable documentation for this :(

E.g.:
basecit <- system.file("CITATION", package="base")
source(basecit, echo=TRUE, encoding="8859-1")
readCitationFile(basecit)

BTW: 'make check' is a relativ long running task and if one changes 
a source file, all checks are ran again til it gets to the code in
question (in my case tests/Examples/utils-Ex.Rout.fail). Is there
a shortcut to jump immediately to the utils tests?

Regards,
jel.

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