[node.js] convert streamed buffers to utf8-string

I want to make a HTTP-request using node.js to load some text from a webserver. Since the response can contain much text (some Megabytes) I want to process each text chunk separately. I can achieve this using the following code:

var req = http.request(reqOptions, function(res) {
    ...
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    res.on('data', function(textChunk) {
        // process utf8 text chunk
    });
});

This seems to work without problems. However I want to support HTTP-compression, so I use zlib:

var zip = zlib.createUnzip();

// NO res.setEncoding('utf8') here since we need the raw bytes for zlib
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
    // do something like checking the number of bytes downloaded
    zip.write(chunk); // give the raw bytes to zlib, s.b.
});

zip.on('data', function(chunk) {
    // convert chunk to utf8 text:
    var textChunk = chunk.toString('utf8');

    // process utf8 text chunk
});

This can be a problem for multi-byte characters like '\u00c4' which consists of two bytes: 0xC3 and 0x84. If the first byte is covered by the first chunk (Buffer) and the second byte by the second chunk then chunk.toString('utf8') will produce incorrect characters at the end/beginning of the text chunk. How can I avoid this?

Hint: I still need the buffer (more specifically the number of bytes in the buffer) to limit the number of downloaded bytes. So using res.setEncoding('utf8') like in the first example code above for non-compressed data does not suit my needs.

var fs = require("fs");

function readFileLineByLine(filename, processline) {
    var stream = fs.createReadStream(filename);
    var s = "";
    stream.on("data", function(data) {
        s += data.toString('utf8');
        var lines = s.split("\n");
        for (var i = 0; i < lines.length - 1; i++)
            processline(lines[i]);
        s = lines[lines.length - 1];
    });

    stream.on("end",function() {
        var lines = s.split("\n");
        for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++)
            processline(lines[i]);
    });
}

var linenumber = 0;
readFileLineByLine(filename, function(line) {
    console.log(++linenumber + " -- " + line);
});