Agile Web Development with Rails 8 B7.0: cannot reproduce i18n error (page 229)

Page 229 gives the example that if the Spanish language (es) is requested, you should get an error such as “es translation not available”.
Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce this behaviour, except by entering an invented language (e.g. “zz”) in the URL.
If, for example, I enter a valid nation code (e.g. “it”), I get no error.

I also wonder why I should get an error with the Spanish language: has this not been declared in the config/initialisers/i18n.rb file?