diff --git a/src/files.c b/src/files.c
index 2d094756..4e0f3fbf 100644
--- a/src/files.c
+++ b/src/files.c
@@ -2354,11 +2354,13 @@ int diralphasort(const void *va, const void *vb)
 	if (!aisdir && bisdir)
 		return 1;
 
-	/* Standard function brain damage: We should be sorting
-	 * alphabetically and case-insensitively according to the current
-	 * locale, but there's no standard strcasecoll() function, so we
-	 * have to use multibyte strcasecmp() instead. */
-	return mbstrcasecmp(a, b);
+	int difference = mbstrcasecmp(a, b);
+
+	/* If two names are equivalent when ignoring case, compare them bytewise. */
+	if (difference == 0)
+		return strcmp(a, b);
+	else
+		return difference;
 }
 #endif