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aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com (Aaron Davies) writes:

> Thanks, but I'm not sure those have anything to do with what I want.
> They seem to be ways to specify the coding system to use when reading
> existing files; I want to specify the coding system for new files.

default-buffer-file-coding-system seems to be the right variable.
Its documentation points to buffer-file-coding-system which states
that the value is used for writing.
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