// if this is a concern we could add special cases for some known charsets (like utf8)
          // or we could avoid inputstreamreader and use the decoder api directly
          // TODO(lukes): in a real implementation we would need to handle overflow conditions
          int maxChars = (int) (size.get().intValue() * cs.newDecoder().maxCharsPerByte());
          char[] buffer = new char[maxChars];
          int bufIndex = 0;

          // if this is a concern we could add special cases for some known charsets (like utf8)
          // or we could avoid inputstreamreader and use the decoder api directly
          // TODO(lukes): in a real implementation we would need to handle overflow conditions
          int maxChars = (int) (size.get().intValue() * cs.newDecoder().maxCharsPerByte());
          char[] buffer = new char[maxChars];
          int bufIndex = 0;