This provides utility methods for working with bidirectional text. All
of the methods are static, and are organized into a class primarily to
group them together for documentation and discoverability.
Bidi stands for Bi-directional text. According to
Wikipedia:
Bi-directional text is text containing text in both text directionalities,
both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR). It generally involves text
containing different types of alphabets, but may also refer to
boustrophedon, which is changing text directionality in each row.
The Intl class provides a common entry point for internationalization
related tasks. An Intl instance can be created for a particular locale
and used to create a date format via anIntl.date(). Static methods
on this class are also used in message formatting.
This should be called for at least one locale before any date
formatting methods are called. It sets up the lookup for date
symbols. Both the locale and ignored parameter are ignored, as
the data for all locales is directly available.
