Dear Maintainer, uim-data 1:1.9.7-1 do not include /usr/share/uim/jappanese*utf8.scm files: % ls -1 /usr/share/uim/japanese*.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese-act.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese-azik.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese-custom.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese-kana.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese-kzik.scm /usr/share/uim/japanese.scm uim-skk 1.9.7 now supports UTF-8 and requires /usr/share/uim/japanese*utf8.scm files: % grep japanese-utf8.scm /usr/share/uim/skk.scm (require "japanese-utf8.scm") Patch attached. P.S. If you have the time, please package version 1.9.8; a bug in uim-skk has been fixed: https://github.com/uim/uim/pull/337