SSIS - ANSI flatfile always saved as UTF-8 (w/o BOM)

Question

I am facing an issue with SSIS where a customer wants a (previously delivered file in UTF-8) to be delivered in ANSI-1252. No big deal i thought. change the file connection manager and done... unfortunately it wasn't that simple. Been stuck on this for a day and clueless on what to try next.

the package itself

IN - OLE DB source with a query. Source database fields are NVARCHAR.

Next i have created a Data conversion block where i convert the incoming DT_WSTR to DT_STR using 1252 codepage.

After that is a outbound file connection destination. The flat file connection is tab delimited using codepage 1252. I have mapped the converted columns to the columns used in this flat file. Below are some screenshots of the connection manager and destination block

Now when i create a new txt file from explorer it will be ANSI (as detected by Notepad++)

When the package runs the file becomes UTF-8 w/o BOM

I have tried experimenting with the checkbox for overwriting as suggested in SSIS - Flat file always ANSI never UTF-8 encoded

as building the project from scratch and experimenting with the data conversion.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what I am missing here? The strange thing is we have a different package with exact the same blocks build previously and it does output an ANSI file (checked the package from top to bottom). However we are getting mixed results on different machines. Some machines will give an ANSI file other the UTF-8 file.

Answer 1

Is this solved already? My idea is to delete the whole Data Flow Task and re-create it. I suppose the metadata is stuck and overwritten at each execution.

I believe you need not to change anything in your ssis package just check your editor setting (notepad++). Go to settings --> Preferences --> new document setting You need to uncheck the 'Apply to opened ANSI files' checkbox. Kindly check and let me know if it works for you.