title: Delphi Ansistrings
body: <p>I have a case here, I am going to migrate over to delphi 2011 XE from Delphi 7, and to my surprise many components will have problems due to ansistrings, in delphi xe they look like japanese / chinese characters, now the unit I use is a PCSC connector and seem to be discontinued/abandoned from the original developper.</p>
  
  <p>basically what I want is a easy way to read the strings again with as little modification to original code as possible.. </p>
  
  <p>also if there are any good tutorials out there on how to makae components ansistring ready for 2009 and newer would help me also</p>