Pages '09 special characters showing up weird

Hi, I am a new Mac user and i have found that in pages '09 some of the special characters are not displaying correctly, the main problems are with the mathematical x and y symbols, if I copy and paste the strange characters out of pages then they display correctly it is just in pages that I have the problem. come to think of it the error came along when i upgraded to the latest version of Mountain Lion, could this be a problem?
This is an example of the characters x and y:

Never mind, I found it via google. Unicode 1D465 for the X.
This is because the font in your document does not have that character or uses it for a differnt symbol. When you drag the symbol from the center pane of the character viewer, it pastes it in using whatever font you are using. If you look at the character viewer and look at the font variations, you will see Cambria Math as one of the variations. Drag the symbol from there and it will display correctly (because it will be pasted in as Cambria Math). Or you can use the Cambria font in your document and drag the X from the center pane.

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