encoded Unicode (version 3.2).
.LP
Distinguished names (DN) (and relative distinguished names (RDN) to
-be passed to the LDAP routines should conform to RFC 2253. The
-.BR ldap_explode_dn (3)
-routines can be used to work with DNs.
+be passed to the LDAP routines should conform to RFC 2253 UTF\-8
+string representation.
.LP
Search filters to be passed to the search routines are to be
-constructed by hand and should conform to RFC 2254.
+constructed by hand and should conform to RFC 2254 UTF\-8
+string representation.
.LP
LDAP URL are to be passed to routines are expected to conform
-to RFC 2255.
-The
+to RFC 2255 syntax. The
.BR ldap_url (3)
routines can be used to work with LDAP URLs.
.SH DISPLAYING RESULTS
.SM ldap_get_dn(3)
extract the DN from an entry
.TP
-.SM ldap_explode_dn(3)
-convert a DN into its component parts (deprecated)
-.TP
-.SM ldap_explode_rdn(3)
-convert an RDN into its component parts (deprecated)
-.TP
.SM ldap_get_values_len(3)
return an attribute's values with lengths
.TP