] Polish characters in HTML

My webpage about Saint Raphael is starting to get attention around the Carmelite community (I even found out that the Discalced Carmelite Order has a mailing list on Yahoogroups, heh). I have this image of barefoot friars alone in their cells, typing feverishly on an internet connection. Which may not be too far from the truth!

Anyway, I'm starting to get more information sent to me about Saint Raphael's life, which I'm going to add to my webpage. But the extra Polish characters are giving me conniptions, since I can't copy/paste them into vi (they just show up as a dot). I've been having some luck inserting the necessary & #xxx codes though...