diff --git a/apps/files/js/filelist.js b/apps/files/js/filelist.js
index 532ed46696..383b6c0cd2 100644
--- a/apps/files/js/filelist.js
+++ b/apps/files/js/filelist.js
@@ -1860,7 +1860,7 @@
 			if (fileInfo1.type !== 'dir' && fileInfo2.type === 'dir') {
 				return 1;
 			}
-			return fileInfo1.name.localeCompare(fileInfo2.name);
+			return OC.Util.naturalSortCompare(fileInfo1.name, fileInfo2.name);
 		},
 		/**
 		 * Compares two file infos by size.
diff --git a/apps/files/lib/helper.php b/apps/files/lib/helper.php
index 50b4e8338a..d857c1df15 100644
--- a/apps/files/lib/helper.php
+++ b/apps/files/lib/helper.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class Helper
 		} elseif ($aType !== 'dir' and $bType === 'dir') {
 			return 1;
 		} else {
-			return strnatcasecmp($a->getName(), $b->getName());
+			return \OCP\Util::naturalSortCompare($a->getName(), $b->getName());
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/core/js/js.js b/core/js/js.js
index 60f9cc11a5..b6bfa01d0d 100644
--- a/core/js/js.js
+++ b/core/js/js.js
@@ -1365,8 +1365,56 @@ OC.Util = {
 		// FIXME: likely to break when crossing DST
 		// would be better to use a library like momentJS
 		return new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate());
+	},
+
+	_chunkify: function(t) {
+		// Adapted from http://my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/show.dml/1671288
+		var tz = [], x = 0, y = -1, n = 0, code, c;
+
+		while (x < t.length) {
+			c = t.charAt(x);
+			var m = (c === '.' || (c >= '0' && c <= '9'));
+			if (m !== n) {
+				// next chunk
+				y++;
+				tz[y] = '';
+				n = m;
+			}
+			tz[y] += c;
+			x++;
+		}
+		return tz;
+	},
+	/**
+	 * Compare two strings to provide a natural sort
+	 * @param a first string to compare
+	 * @param b second string to compare
+	 * @return -1 if b comes before a, 1 if a comes before b
+	 * or 0 if the strings are identical
+	 */
+	naturalSortCompare: function(a, b) {
+		var aa = OC.Util._chunkify(a);
+		var bb = OC.Util._chunkify(b);
+
+		for (x = 0; aa[x] && bb[x]; x++) {
+			if (aa[x] !== bb[x]) {
+				var aNum = Number(aa[x]), bNum = Number(bb[x]);
+				// note: == is correct here
+				if (aNum == aa[x] && bNum == bb[x]) {
+					return aNum - bNum;
+				} else {
+					// Forcing 'en' locale to match the server-side locale which is
+					// always 'en'.
+					//
+					// Note: This setting isn't supported by all browsers but for the ones
+					// that do there will be more consistency between client-server sorting
+					return aa[x].localeCompare(bb[x], 'en');
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return aa.length - bb.length;
 	}
-};
+}
 
 /**
  * Utility class for the history API,
diff --git a/core/js/tests/specHelper.js b/core/js/tests/specHelper.js
index 3d208d9ef3..7745b82a99 100644
--- a/core/js/tests/specHelper.js
+++ b/core/js/tests/specHelper.js
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ window.Snap.prototype = {
 	close: function() {}
 };
 
+window.isPhantom = /phantom/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
+
 // global setup for all tests
 (function setupTests() {
 	var fakeServer = null,
diff --git a/core/js/tests/specs/coreSpec.js b/core/js/tests/specs/coreSpec.js
index 166210d031..265b9deac3 100644
--- a/core/js/tests/specs/coreSpec.js
+++ b/core/js/tests/specs/coreSpec.js
@@ -473,5 +473,160 @@ describe('Core base tests', function() {
 			});
 		});
 	});
+	describe('naturalSortCompare', function() {
+		// cit() will skip tests if running on PhantomJS because it has issues with
+		// localeCompare(). See https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/11063
+		//
+		// Please make sure to run these tests in Chrome/Firefox manually
+		// to make sure they run.
+		var cit = window.isPhantom?xit:it;
+
+		// must provide the same results as \OC_Util::naturalSortCompare
+		it('sorts alphabetically', function() {
+			var a = [
+				'def',
+				'xyz',
+				'abc'
+			];
+			a.sort(OC.Util.naturalSortCompare);
+			expect(a).toEqual([
+				'abc',
+				'def',
+				'xyz'
+			]);
+		});
+		cit('sorts with different casing', function() {
+			var a = [
+				'aaa',
+				'bbb',
+				'BBB',
+				'AAA'
+			];
+			a.sort(OC.Util.naturalSortCompare);
+			expect(a).toEqual([
+				'aaa',
+				'AAA',
+				'bbb',
+				'BBB'
+			]);
+		});
+		it('sorts with numbers', function() {
+			var a = [
+				'124.txt',
+				'abc1',
+				'123.txt',
+				'abc',
+				'abc2',
+				'def (2).txt',
+				'ghi 10.txt',
+				'abc12',
+				'def.txt',
+				'def (1).txt',
+				'ghi 2.txt',
+				'def (10).txt',
+				'abc10',
+				'def (12).txt',
+				'z',
+				'ghi.txt',
+				'za',
+				'ghi 1.txt',
+				'ghi 12.txt',
+				'zz'
+			];
+			a.sort(OC.Util.naturalSortCompare);
+			expect(a).toEqual([
+				'123.txt',
+				'124.txt',
+				'abc',
+				'abc1',
+				'abc2',
+				'abc10',
+				'abc12',
+				'def.txt',
+				'def (1).txt',
+				'def (2).txt',
+				'def (10).txt',
+				'def (12).txt',
+				'ghi.txt',
+				'ghi 1.txt',
+				'ghi 2.txt',
+				'ghi 10.txt',
+				'ghi 12.txt',
+				'z',
+				'za',
+				'zz'
+			]);
+		});
+		it('sorts with chinese characters', function() {
+			var a = [
+				'十.txt',
+				'一.txt',
+				'二.txt',
+				'十 2.txt',
+				'三.txt',
+				'四.txt',
+				'abc.txt',
+				'五.txt',
+				'七.txt',
+				'八.txt',
+				'九.txt',
+				'六.txt',
+				'十一.txt',
+				'波.txt',
+				'破.txt',
+				'莫.txt',
+				'啊.txt',
+				'123.txt'
+			];
+			a.sort(OC.Util.naturalSortCompare);
+			expect(a).toEqual([
+				'123.txt',
+				'abc.txt',
+				'一.txt',
+				'七.txt',
+				'三.txt',
+				'九.txt',
+				'二.txt',
+				'五.txt',
+				'八.txt',
+				'六.txt',
+				'十.txt',
+				'十 2.txt',
+				'十一.txt',
+				'啊.txt',
+				'四.txt',
+				'波.txt',
+				'破.txt',
+				'莫.txt'
+			]);
+		});
+		cit('sorts with umlauts', function() {
+			var a = [
+				'öh.txt',
+				'Äh.txt',
+				'oh.txt',
+				'Üh 2.txt',
+				'Üh.txt',
+				'ah.txt',
+				'Öh.txt',
+				'uh.txt',
+				'üh.txt',
+				'äh.txt'
+			];
+			a.sort(OC.Util.naturalSortCompare);
+			expect(a).toEqual([
+				'ah.txt',
+				'äh.txt',
+				'Äh.txt',
+				'oh.txt',
+				'öh.txt',
+				'Öh.txt',
+				'uh.txt',
+				'üh.txt',
+				'Üh.txt',
+				'Üh 2.txt'
+			]);
+		});
+	});
 });
 
diff --git a/lib/private/naturalsort.php b/lib/private/naturalsort.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6fa0ed896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/private/naturalsort.php
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Vincent Petry <PVince81@owncloud.com>
+ * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
+ * later.
+ * See the COPYING-README file.
+ *
+ */
+
+namespace OC;
+
+class NaturalSort_DefaultCollator {
+
+	public function compare($a, $b) {
+		if ($a === $b) {
+			return 0;
+		}
+		return ($a < $b) ? -1 : 1;
+	}
+}
+
+class NaturalSort {
+	private static $instance;
+	private $collator;
+
+	/**
+	 * Split the given string in chunks of numbers and strings
+	 * @param string $t string
+	 * @return array of strings and number chunks
+	 */
+	private function naturalSortChunkify($t) {
+		// Adapted and ported to PHP from
+		// http://my.opera.com/GreyWyvern/blog/show.dml/1671288
+		$tz = array();
+		$x = 0;
+		$y = -1;
+		$n = null;
+		$length = strlen($t);
+
+		while ($x < $length) {
+			$c = $t[$x];
+			$m = ($c === '.' || ($c >= '0' && $c <= '9'));
+			if ($m !== $n) {
+				// next chunk
+				$y++;
+				$tz[$y] = '';
+				$n = $m;
+			}
+			$tz[$y] .= $c;
+			$x++;
+		}
+		return $tz;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the string collator
+	 * @return Collator string collator
+	 */
+	private function getCollator() {
+		if (!isset($this->collator)) {
+			// looks like the default is en_US_POSIX which yields wrong sorting with
+			// German umlauts, so using en_US instead
+			if (class_exists('Collator')) {
+				$this->collator = new \Collator('en_US');
+			}
+			else {
+				$this->collator = new \OC\NaturalSort_DefaultCollator();
+			}
+		}
+		return $this->collator;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Compare two strings to provide a natural sort
+	 * @param $a first string to compare
+	 * @param $b second string to compare
+	 * @return -1 if $b comes before $a, 1 if $a comes before $b
+	 * or 0 if the strings are identical
+	 */
+	public function compare($a, $b) {
+		// Needed because PHP doesn't sort correctly when numbers are enclosed in
+		// parenthesis, even with NUMERIC_COLLATION enabled.
+		// For example it gave ["test (2).txt", "test.txt"]
+		// instead of ["test.txt", "test (2).txt"]
+		$aa = self::naturalSortChunkify($a);
+		$bb = self::naturalSortChunkify($b);
+		$alen = count($aa);
+		$blen = count($bb);
+
+		for ($x = 0; $x < $alen && $x < $blen; $x++) {
+			$aChunk = $aa[$x];
+			$bChunk = $bb[$x];
+			if ($aChunk !== $bChunk) {
+				if (is_numeric($aChunk) && is_numeric($bChunk)) {
+					$aNum = (int)$aChunk;
+					$bNum = (int)$bChunk;
+					return $aNum - $bNum;
+				}
+				return self::getCollator()->compare($aChunk, $bChunk);
+			}
+		}
+		return $alen - $blen;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns a singleton
+	 * @return \OC\NaturalSort instance
+	 */
+	public static function getInstance() {
+		if (!isset(self::$instance)) {
+			self::$instance = new \OC\NaturalSort();
+		}
+		return self::$instance;
+	}
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/public/util.php b/lib/public/util.php
index 87b7a4f19d..5d63cf3ffb 100644
--- a/lib/public/util.php
+++ b/lib/public/util.php
@@ -510,6 +510,17 @@ class Util {
 		return \OC_Util::generateRandomBytes($length);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Compare two strings to provide a natural sort
+	 * @param $a first string to compare
+	 * @param $b second string to compare
+	 * @return -1 if $b comes before $a, 1 if $a comes before $b
+	 * or 0 if the strings are identical
+	 */
+	public static function naturalSortCompare($a, $b) {
+		return \OC\NaturalSort::getInstance()->compare($a, $b);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * check if a password is required for each public link
 	 * @return boolean
diff --git a/settings/js/users/users.js b/settings/js/users/users.js
index 883851e2a2..a94352e8e1 100644
--- a/settings/js/users/users.js
+++ b/settings/js/users/users.js
@@ -189,13 +189,15 @@ var UserList = {
 		var rows = $userListBody.find('tr').get();
 
 		rows.sort(function(a, b) {
+			// FIXME: inefficient way of getting the names,
+			// better use a data attribute
 			a = $(a).find('td.name').text();
 			b = $(b).find('td.name').text();
 			var firstSort = UserList.preSortSearchString(a, b);
 			if(typeof firstSort !== 'undefined') {
 				return firstSort;
 			}
-			return UserList.alphanum(a, b);
+			return OC.Util.naturalSortCompare(a, b);
 		});
 
 		var items = [];
diff --git a/tests/lib/naturalsort.php b/tests/lib/naturalsort.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a880acaeec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/naturalsort.php
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Vincent Petry <PVince81@owncloud.com>
+ * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
+ * later.
+ * See the COPYING-README file.
+ */
+
+class Test_NaturalSort extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
+
+	public function setUp() {
+		if(!class_exists('Collator')) {
+			$this->markTestSkipped('The intl module is not available, natural sorting will not work as expected.');
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @dataProvider naturalSortDataProvider
+	 */
+	public function testNaturalSortCompare($array, $sorted)
+	{
+		$comparator = \OC\NaturalSort::getInstance();
+		usort($array, array($comparator, 'compare'));
+		$this->assertEquals($sorted, $array);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Data provider for natural sort.
+	 * Must provide the same result as in core/js/tests/specs/coreSpec.js
+	 * @return array test cases
+	 */
+	public function naturalSortDataProvider()
+	{
+		return array(
+			// different casing
+			array(
+				// unsorted
+				array(
+					'aaa',
+					'bbb',
+					'BBB',
+					'AAA'
+				),
+				// sorted
+				array(
+					'aaa',
+					'AAA',
+					'bbb',
+					'BBB'
+				)
+			),
+			// numbers
+			array(
+				// unsorted
+				array(
+					'124.txt',
+					'abc1',
+					'123.txt',
+					'abc',
+					'abc2',
+					'def (2).txt',
+					'ghi 10.txt',
+					'abc12',
+					'def.txt',
+					'def (1).txt',
+					'ghi 2.txt',
+					'def (10).txt',
+					'abc10',
+					'def (12).txt',
+					'z',
+					'ghi.txt',
+					'za',
+					'ghi 1.txt',
+					'ghi 12.txt',
+					'zz',
+				),
+				// sorted
+				array(
+					'123.txt',
+					'124.txt',
+					'abc',
+					'abc1',
+					'abc2',
+					'abc10',
+					'abc12',
+					'def.txt',
+					'def (1).txt',
+					'def (2).txt',
+					'def (10).txt',
+					'def (12).txt',
+					'ghi.txt',
+					'ghi 1.txt',
+					'ghi 2.txt',
+					'ghi 10.txt',
+					'ghi 12.txt',
+					'z',
+					'za',
+					'zz',
+				)
+			),
+			// chinese characters
+			array(
+				// unsorted
+				array(
+					'十.txt',
+					'一.txt',
+					'二.txt',
+					'十 2.txt',
+					'三.txt',
+					'四.txt',
+					'abc.txt',
+					'五.txt',
+					'七.txt',
+					'八.txt',
+					'九.txt',
+					'六.txt',
+					'十一.txt',
+					'波.txt',
+					'破.txt',
+					'莫.txt',
+					'啊.txt',
+					'123.txt',
+				),
+				// sorted
+				array(
+					'123.txt',
+					'abc.txt',
+					'一.txt',
+					'七.txt',
+					'三.txt',
+					'九.txt',
+					'二.txt',
+					'五.txt',
+					'八.txt',
+					'六.txt',
+					'十.txt',
+					'十 2.txt',
+					'十一.txt',
+					'啊.txt',
+					'四.txt',
+					'波.txt',
+					'破.txt',
+					'莫.txt',
+				)
+			),
+			// with umlauts
+			array(
+				// unsorted
+				array(
+					'öh.txt',
+					'Äh.txt',
+					'oh.txt',
+					'Üh 2.txt',
+					'Üh.txt',
+					'ah.txt',
+					'Öh.txt',
+					'uh.txt',
+					'üh.txt',
+					'äh.txt',
+				),
+				// sorted
+				array(
+					'ah.txt',
+					'äh.txt',
+					'Äh.txt',
+					'oh.txt',
+					'öh.txt',
+					'Öh.txt',
+					'uh.txt',
+					'üh.txt',
+					'Üh.txt',
+					'Üh 2.txt',
+				)
+			),
+		);
+	}
+}