I am looking for a way to decode quoted-printables.
The quoted-printables are for arabic characters and look like this:
=D8=B3=D8=B9=D8=A7=D8=
I know nothing of the iPhone, but most email processing libraries will contain functions to do this, as email is where this format is used. I suggest searching for MIME decoding type functions, similar to those at enter link description here.
The earlier posters approach also seems fine to me - I feel he is being a little too self-deprecating in describing it as hacky :)