Greetings!

I have been working with the Win32::Eventlog module, and so far it is a wonderful tool. One problem, however, is the 'User' field that is returned looks to be in binary. For example, here is a dump of one of my event log entries.

$VAR1 = {
          'TimeGenerated' => 1114112564,
          'RecordNumber' => 10,
          'ClosingRecordNumber' => 0,
          'User' => '☺♣     ♣§   ⌐♠`Å&#8
+776;≈⌠─G^u2∩♥  ',
          'Computer' => 'JPICKETT-LAPTOP',
          'EventID' => 1073748859,
          'Length' => 0,
          'Message' => 'The Alerter service was successfully sent a st
+op control.',
          'Timewritten' => 1114112564,
          'EventType' => 4,
          'Strings' => 'Alerter stop ',
          'Source' => 'Service Control Manager',
          'Category' => 0,
          'Data' => ''
        };
}
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Is there any way in Perl to get the user name as opposed to binary data? Thanks!