This workarounds a bug in duplicity. Quoting the reporter (thanks, Jonathan
Dupart <jonathan@dupart.org>, for the detailed report and initial patch):
The duplicity backend is broken when the gpg ecryption is set up and the
system default locale is not english (or C).
The bug reports on duplicity are here :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565398
https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/510625
### COMMAND-LINE MANGLING ######################################################
### initialize $execstr*
-execstr_precmd=
+execstr_precmd='LC_ALL=C'
execstr_command=
execstr_options="$options --no-print-statistics"
execstr_source=