I haven't converted and reposted Radojka's version because, as I understand it, the song is copyrighted, and I try not to violate copyrights.

At this point in time, any browser or OS so old it does not support Unicode, including the UTF-8 file encoding, has ceased to be a realistic concern. Unicode is the proper way to go.

Note that Unicode escapes (using only the 7-bit ASCII character subset) work with the vast majority of code pages and with all UTF file encodings. Don't confuse them with specific UTF encodings like UTF-8, which are more like codepage encodings, displaying properly only when the right encoding is detected or selected.

Note also that, when previewing, codepage-specific text will often show up to the poster exactly as expected, regardless of being improperly encoded for universal viewing. Forcing a specific standard encoding (like iso-latin-1) on both thread and preview pages should cause such errors to show up more consistently to the poster in preview. But most posters neglect to preview their messages, so errors would still occur often.