Unicode Error importing from CSV File

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Hi experts,
I have a .csv file I'm trying to import into SQL Table. The table columns are defined as nvarchar.

The Data Flow task shows this error: "Column 0 cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode"
I'm at a loss for what to do. I even made the table columns varchar but that fails too.
Excel and .csv data is by default unicode/nvarchar correct?
What can I do?
Thanks.

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Go into advanced editor for source and destination columns and see what they are defined as. Look in each component. One is treating as varchar and the other is nvarchar.

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Thanks, I revisited Mikes comment and dug deeper. I changed most of the data types to DT_WSTR and now the warning doesn't show. Thanks guys.