Index: typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_menu.php
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--- typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_menu.php	(revision 8552)
+++ typo3/sysext/cms/tslib/class.tslib_menu.php	(working copy)
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@
 	var $WMextraScript;
 	var $alternativeMenuTempArray='';		// Can be set to contain menu item arrays for sub-levels.
 	var $nameAttribute = 'name';			// Will be 'id' in XHTML-mode
+	protected static $alternativeSortingField;
 
 	/**
 	 * The initialization of the object. This just sets some internal variables.
@@ -364,6 +365,29 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Used by makeMenu() as compare function for supporting a correctly
+	 * ordered menu taking into account locales.
+	 *
+	 * Uses strcoll() which takes locales into account, strcmp() doesn't.
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	Current record, that gets compared with the next record
+	 * @param	array	Next record
+	 * @return	boolean
+	 */
+	public static function sortByField($currentRecord, $nextRecord) {
+			// default, if current record equals equals next record
+		$result = 0;
+
+		if(strcoll($currentRecord[self::$alternativeSortingField], $nextRecord[self::$alternativeSortingField]) < 0) {
+			$result = -1;
+		} elseif(strcoll($currentRecord[self::$alternativeSortingField], $nextRecord[self::$alternativeSortingField]) > 0) {
+			$result = 1;
+		}
+
+		return $result;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Creates the menu in the internal variables, ready for output.
 	 * Basically this will read the page records needed and fill in the internal $this->menuArr
 	 * Based on a hash of this array and some other variables the $this->result variable will be loaded either from cache OR by calling the generate() method of the class to create the menu for real.
@@ -484,6 +508,18 @@
 									}
 								}
 							}
+								// if alternativeSortingField is set and current language is not default language
+							if($altSortField != 'sorting' && $GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_language_uid != 0) {
+								$altSortFieldArray = explode(' ', $altSortField);
+									// share the alternative sorting field with the compare function
+								self::$alternativeSortingField = $altSortFieldArray[0];
+									// call the custom sort function sortByKey();
+								usort($temp, array('tslib_menu', 'sortByField'));
+
+								if(isset($altSortFieldArray[1]) && ($altSortFieldArray[1] == 'desc' || $altSortFieldArray[1] == 'DESC')) {
+									$temp = array_reverse($temp);
+								}
+							}
 						}
 					break;
 					case 'list':