Reduce size of encoding buffer for short character values

When inserting character values Derby converts from Java char to an on-disk encoding of UTF-8. To to this, the user stream is read and the resulting bytes after conversion are placed in a "translation buffer". The default size of the buffer is 32 KB. When inserting a lot of short values, the pressure on the Java garbage collector is unnecessary high and the allocation/GC also causes a somewhat higher CPU usage.

This effect of this issue can easily be reduced by sizing the buffer in the appropriate cases.