Characters Missing in PDF

I just created a Pages document with a table and in two different cells I typed '20th Century Fox.' I used Superscript (Format>Font>Baseline>Superscript) to elevate the 'th' in '20th.' It looks fine in Pages but when I Export to PDF, everything after the '20' in those cells disappears.
I think this has to be a bug as I cannot figure out what sort of user error could cause this. Has anyone else seen this and do you have a workaround?
Pages:       PDF:
Martin
Pages 5.2

I feel like I've just spotted the Abominable Snowman. I received an email from Apple based on this thread. Has anyone ever heard directly from Apple on one of these forums? You think it's some odd sort of spam? I've waited to post about it because I feared, like the Yeti, they might scare off easily. Since they haven't written back to my reply, I'll post the conversation here:
We have heard about your issue from the discussion thread below:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6931276
We would like to know if you would be able to provide the following:
- OSX and Pages versions
- a copy of the Pages document that shows characters missing after exporting to PDF
Thank you,
The iWork Team
20416647
I wrote them back with the three pieces of information they asked for —two of which were in the thread— but nothing so far.
Martin

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