>>Does using "non-TeX" fonts in Document>Settings>Fonts help?(This allows all >>Unicode characters in listings and uses Unicode-encoded fonts in the output.)
There was no change. The '-' character on the clipboard is still encoded as 3f hex. Bob p.s. I copied the text at the bottom of my email and pasted into a text editor then saved as example2.lyx. When I tried to open it with my Lyx 2.1.3 I get a pop-up saying ...example2.lyx is not a readable LyX document. where ... is the path on my computer