Uwe Brauer writes:
 There is *no* way to have the variable x-symbol-8bits enabled by
default. 
It's permanent buffer-local.  Use `setq-default', not `setq'.
If that doesn't help, then something in x-symbol itself or in hooks
you supply is resetting it.
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