diff --git a/main/inc/lib/multibyte_string_functions.lib.php b/main/inc/lib/multibyte_string_functions.lib.php
index 59098a7310..60d796ae57 100644
--- a/main/inc/lib/multibyte_string_functions.lib.php
+++ b/main/inc/lib/multibyte_string_functions.lib.php
@@ -1037,6 +1037,50 @@ function api_add_pcre_unicode_modifier($pcre, $encoding = null) {
 	return api_is_utf8($encoding) ? $pcre.'u' : $pcre;
 }
 
+/**
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Functions for string comparison
+ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Performs string comparison, case insensitive, language sensitive, replacement of strcmp().
+ * @param string $string1				The first string.
+ * @param string $string2				The second string.
+ * @param string $language (optional)	The language in which comparison is to be made. If language is omitted, interface language is assumed then.
+ * @param string $encoding (optional)	The used internally by this function character encoding. If it is omitted, the platform character set will be used by default.
+ * @link http://php.net/manual/en/function.strcmp.php
+ * @link http://php.net/manual/en/collator.compare.php
+ */
+function api_strcmp($string1, $string2, $language = null, $encoding = null) {
+	if (INTL_INSTALLED) {
+		$collator = api_get_collator($language);
+		if (is_object($collator)) {
+			$result = collator_compare($collator, api_utf8_encode($string1, $encoding), api_utf8_encode($string2, $encoding));
+			return $result === false ? 0 : $result;
+		}
+	}
+	return strcmp($string1, $string2);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns an instance of Collator class (ICU) created for a specified language.
+ * @param string $language (optional)	The specified language. If it is omitted, then the interface language is assumed.
+ * @return object						The corresponding instance of Collator class.
+ * @link http://php.net/manual/en/collator.create.php
+ */
+function api_get_collator($language = null) {
+	static $collator = array();
+	if (INTL_INSTALLED) {
+		if (!isset($collator[$language])) {
+			$locale = api_get_locale_from_language($language);
+			$collator[$language] = collator_create($locale);
+		}
+		return $collator[$language];
+	}
+	return null;
+}
+
 /**
  * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Encoding management functions
diff --git a/main/inc/lib/tablesort.lib.php b/main/inc/lib/tablesort.lib.php
index e605e46f39..4f80cee43d 100644
--- a/main/inc/lib/tablesort.lib.php
+++ b/main/inc/lib/tablesort.lib.php
@@ -95,37 +95,43 @@ class TableSort
         if($column != strval(intval($column))){return $data;} //probably an attack
         if(!in_array($direction,array(SORT_ASC,SORT_DESC))){return $data;} // probably an attack
         $compare_function = '';
+        if ($type == SORT_REGULAR)
+        {
+			if (TableSort::is_image_column($data, $column))
+			{
+				$type = SORT_IMAGE;
+			}
+			elseif (TableSort::is_date_column($data, $column))
+			{
+				$type = SORT_DATE;
+			}
+			elseif (TableSort::is_numeric_column($data, $column))
+			{
+				$type = SORT_NUMERIC;
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				$type = SORT_STRING;
+			}
+        }
 		switch ($type)
 		{
-			case SORT_REGULAR :
-				if (TableSort::is_image_column($data, $column))
-				{
-					return TableSort::sort_table($data, $column, $direction, SORT_IMAGE);
-				}
-				elseif (TableSort::is_date_column($data, $column))
-				{
-					return TableSort::sort_table($data, $column, $direction, SORT_DATE);
-				}
-				elseif (TableSort::is_numeric_column($data, $column))
-				{
-					return TableSort::sort_table($data, $column, $direction, SORT_NUMERIC);
-				}
-				return TableSort::sort_table($data, $column, $direction, SORT_STRING);
-				break;
 			case SORT_NUMERIC :
 				$compare_function = 'strip_tags($el1) > strip_tags($el2)';
 				break;
 			case SORT_IMAGE :
-				//$compare_function = 'strnatcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1,"<img>")),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2,"<img>"))) > 0';
-				$compare_function = 'strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1,"<img>")),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2,"<img>"))) > 0';
+				////$compare_function = 'strnatcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1,"<img>")),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2,"<img>"))) > 0';
+				//$compare_function = 'strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1,"<img>")),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2,"<img>"))) > 0';
+				$compare_function = 'api_strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1,"<img>")),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2,"<img>"))) > 0';
 				break;
 			case SORT_DATE :
 				$compare_function = 'strtotime(strip_tags($el1)) > strtotime(strip_tags($el2))';
 				break;
             case SORT_STRING :
             default:
-                //$compare_function = 'strnatcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1)),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2))) > 0';
-                $compare_function = 'strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1)),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2))) > 0';
+                ////$compare_function = 'strnatcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1)),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2))) > 0';
+                //$compare_function = 'strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1)),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2))) > 0';
+                $compare_function = 'api_strcmp(TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el1)),TableSort::orderingstring(strip_tags($el2))) > 0';
                 break;
 		}
 		$function_body = '$el1 = $a['.$column.']; $el2 = $b['.$column.']; return ('.$direction.' == SORT_ASC ? ('.$compare_function.') : !('.$compare_function.'));';
diff --git a/main/mySpace/index.php b/main/mySpace/index.php
index 1b6fd25979..eb9bcee9d3 100644
--- a/main/mySpace/index.php
+++ b/main/mySpace/index.php
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ function sort_users($a,$b){
 	$a = trim(api_strtolower($a[$_SESSION['tracking_column']]));
 	$b = trim(api_strtolower($b[$_SESSION['tracking_column']]));
 	if($_SESSION['tracking_direction'] == 'DESC')
-		return strcmp($b, $a);
+		return api_strcmp($b, $a);
 	else
-		return strcmp($a, $b);
+		return api_strcmp($a, $b);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/main/tracking/courseLog.php b/main/tracking/courseLog.php
index 23c89a811e..4f9f4445fd 100644
--- a/main/tracking/courseLog.php
+++ b/main/tracking/courseLog.php
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ function sort_users($a,$b) {
 	$a = trim(api_strtolower($a[$_SESSION['tracking_column']]));
 	$b = trim(api_strtolower($b[$_SESSION['tracking_column']]));
 	if ($_SESSION['tracking_direction'] == 'DESC') {
-		return strcmp($b, $a);
+		return api_strcmp($b, $a);
     } else {
-		return strcmp($a, $b);
+		return api_strcmp($a, $b);
     }
 }