SSIS - Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page - Special Characters

Question

I have a text file with Vertical Bar{|} separated values and I am using a Flat File source to read the values which fails with the above error.

I have a Flat File Co

Answer 1

If you go to the Flat file connection manager under Advanced and Look at the "OutputColumnWidth" description's ToolTip It will tell you that Composit characters may use more spaces. So the "é" in "Société" most likely occupies more than one character.

EDIT: Here's something about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character