[TYPO3-english] how to override charset in HTML page

[Brian Spring]

I have a large set of HTML pages that were each created  by saving a Word 2010 document to web-page ( *.htm).
The charset = windows-1252
 <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

On the Apache/Typo3 website, these web pages display question marks  ?  for bullet characters.
On the legacy Windows IIS website, the bullet characters display correctly.

I have attempted to edit the .htaccess config file  by adding   AddCharSet  utf-8    .htm      .html  
   and  editing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file   by changing AllowOverride  all   in a directory block where the HTML files reside.
 
Is there a Typo3 configuration that can be or  should be modifed?
Or a php configuration file to edit?


Thank you.