Convert Delphi 7 code to work with Delphi 2009

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I have a String that I needed access to the first character of, so I used stringname[1]. With the unicode support this no longer works. I get an error: [DCC Error] sndkey32.pas(420): E2010 Incompatible types: 'Char' and 'AnsiChar'

Example code: //vkKeyScan from the windows unit

var KeyString: string; MKey : Word;

mkey:=vkKeyScan(KeyString[1])

How would I write this in modern versions of Delphi

Thanks

-Brad

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