HACKING: Add section for tips on reducing translator workload.

* HACKING (Be nice to translators): New section.
Add Jim's suggestion to avoid changing translatable strings if possible.

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@@ -273,6 +273,15 @@ Write "Type const *var", not "const Type *var".
 FIXME: dig up justification
 
 
+Be nice to translators
+======================
+Don't change translatable strings if you can avoid it.
+If you must rearrange individual lines (e.g., in multi-line --help
+strings), extract and create new strings, rather than extracting
+and moving into existing blocks.  This avoids making unnecessary
+work for translators.
+
+
 Add tests
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 Nearly every significant change must be accompanied by a test suite