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Added localization instructions to CONTRIBUTING.md #20451

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to establish the new baselines as the desired behavior. This will change the files in `tests\baselines\reference`, which should be included as part of your commit. It's important to carefully validate changes in the baselines.

## Localization

All strings the user may see are stored in [`diagnosticMessages.json`](./src/compiler/diagnosticMessages.json).
If you make changes to it, run `jake generate-diagnostics` to push them to the `Diagnostic` interface in [`diagnosticInformationMap.generated.ts`](./src/compiler/diagnosticInformationMap.generated.ts).

See [coding guidelines on diagnostic messages](https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Coding-guidelines#diagnostic-messages).