Fix encoding issue.

The 'real' test file had strange UTF-8 characters in it, so make sure
that we convert it over.
Bugfix: didn't return an event.

When I originally wrote this code, it worked, then I extracted it into a model method,
and then I committed.

Turns out that actually broke things. :cry:

Basically, the @event instance variable doens't help much once
its' in the model. Fun.