The source looks like this so I guess it is a font issue on your side, I see the proper symbol for pi.
<span style="font-family:Symbol">p</span> <span style="font-family:Symbol">p</span>The author probably did see a "pi", but should have been using an embedded font, or even better, the unicode "GREEK SMALL LETTER PI", π.
[1]: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03c0/fontsuppor...