[cairo] show_glyphs and writing text

[Donn]

Hi,
 I am doing a diagram for the text now and have spent some time trying to 
write a string using show_glyphs.
 It seems I can write glyphs, just not the ones I expect. I gather it's all 
tangled up in encodings and font backends etc., but is there any easy way to:

cr.select_font_face('fantasy', cairo.FONT_SLANT_NORMAL,cairo.FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD)
cr.set_font_size(0.05 )

glyphs = []
x,y,w,h,xa,ya = cr.text_extents("A")
x,y = 0, 0.5
string=u"Donn is bamboozled"
for c in string:
    glyphs.append( ( ord(c), x, y ) ) #here's me thinking A = 65 :)
    x += xa

cr.show_glyphs (glyphs)

So that a string is displayed? 
(Oh, PS, Freetype is my backend.)

I realize that show_text() is the easier, but there are all these implications 
that's it's not fit for much (unicode issues?) and I am also just trying to 
be thorough. I will also address pango soon.

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