Hi DJBlue,
First of all I would like to thank you for your effort!
As you certainly know, the italian implementation of the Open EPG protocol use an Huffman dictionary for alphabet and some common words.
In attach you can find the code made for linux VDR (in C++) of the italian Sky EPG (the author 'lukkino' has athorized me) and the actual dictionary.
Hope (but i'm sure

) this can help you.
Feel free to contact me for any question (i'm a developer) or simply for test your work.
Thank you again.
Bye,
Nephilim