Working with Extended Characters

I have CS3 on XP SP2
In InDesign, both upper and lower case Pi show up amongst the other letters of the Greek Alphabet in fonts with extended character sets (Times or Arial). However, in Illustrator, the lower case pi is missing... it goes straight from omnicron to rho, skipping pi. I searched and finally found pi clustered with a select few "math" Greek symbols like sigma and mu. InDesign has glyph sorting options, but apparently not Illustrator. Is it possible to sort the glyphs by unicode in Illustrator to make it easier to locate certain characters?
Also, the lower case pi I found in Illustrator had no unicode and it is not rendered in many of the fonts that do in fact contain a lower case pi, under Unicode U+03C0.
Another related annoyance is that when I create a line of text (say in Times New Roman), I sometimes like to highlight the text and rapidly step through the fonts with the up and down arrows until I find one I like. This works fine in In-design and will show pink squares wherever a glyph is not supported by a font, but in Illustrator if the selected text contains certain extended characters, when I step to the next font in the list, the results can be unpredictable.

In Illustrator CS3, I found that both Arial and Times New Roman have TWO lowercase pi characters in the glyphs panel. The first one, in the math chars near the top of the glyphs panel, says "No Unicode". The second one is lower down in the glyphs panel, after the Greek, after the Cyrillic, and before the Hebrew. It has the expected Unicode value U+03C0. I'm guessing this second pi with a Unicode value probably works better when changing to other fonts.

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