diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5d7373f..8e8565b 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1147,8 +1147,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "grep",
  "i18n-embed",
  "i18n-embed-fl",
+ "icu_collator",
+ "icu_provider",
  "ignore",
- "lexical-sort",
  "libcosmic",
  "log",
  "notify",
@@ -2871,6 +2872,149 @@ dependencies = [
  "objc2 0.5.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collator"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d370371887d31d56f361c3eaa15743e54f13bc677059c9191c77e099ed6966b2"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collator_data",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_locid_transform",
+ "icu_normalizer",
+ "icu_properties",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "smallvec",
+ "utf16_iter",
+ "utf8_iter",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collator_data"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8ee3f88741364b7d6269cce6827a3e6a8a2cf408a78f766c9224ab479d5e4ae5"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_collections"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "db2fa452206ebee18c4b5c2274dbf1de17008e874b4dc4f0aea9d01ca79e4526"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locid"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "13acbb8371917fc971be86fc8057c41a64b521c184808a698c02acc242dbf637"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "litemap",
+ "tinystr",
+ "writeable",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locid_transform"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "01d11ac35de8e40fdeda00d9e1e9d92525f3f9d887cdd7aa81d727596788b54e"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_locid",
+ "icu_locid_transform_data",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "tinystr",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_locid_transform_data"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fdc8ff3388f852bede6b579ad4e978ab004f139284d7b28715f773507b946f6e"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_normalizer"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "19ce3e0da2ec68599d193c93d088142efd7f9c5d6fc9b803774855747dc6a84f"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_normalizer_data",
+ "icu_properties",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "smallvec",
+ "utf16_iter",
+ "utf8_iter",
+ "write16",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_normalizer_data"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f8cafbf7aa791e9b22bec55a167906f9e1215fd475cd22adfcf660e03e989516"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_properties"
+version = "1.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "93d6020766cfc6302c15dbbc9c8778c37e62c14427cb7f6e601d849e092aeef5"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_collections",
+ "icu_locid_transform",
+ "icu_properties_data",
+ "icu_provider",
+ "tinystr",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_properties_data"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "67a8effbc3dd3e4ba1afa8ad918d5684b8868b3b26500753effea8d2eed19569"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_provider"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6ed421c8a8ef78d3e2dbc98a973be2f3770cb42b606e3ab18d6237c4dfde68d9"
+dependencies = [
+ "displaydoc",
+ "icu_locid",
+ "icu_provider_macros",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "tinystr",
+ "writeable",
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+ "zerovec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "icu_provider_macros"
+version = "1.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1ec89e9337638ecdc08744df490b221a7399bf8d164eb52a665454e60e075ad6"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.66",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ident_case"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -3316,6 +3460,12 @@ version = "0.6.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f0b5399f6804fbab912acbd8878ed3532d506b7c951b8f9f164ef90fef39e3f4"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "litemap"
+version = "0.7.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "643cb0b8d4fcc284004d5fd0d67ccf61dfffadb7f75e1e71bc420f4688a3a704"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "locale_config"
 version = "0.3.0"
@@ -5126,6 +5276,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.5.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "stable_deref_trait"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8f112729512f8e442d81f95a8a7ddf2b7c6b8a1a6f509a95864142b30cab2d3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "static_assertions"
 version = "1.1.0"
@@ -5202,6 +5358,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "synstructure"
+version = "0.13.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c8af7666ab7b6390ab78131fb5b0fce11d6b7a6951602017c35fa82800708971"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.66",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "syntect"
 version = "5.2.0"
@@ -5384,6 +5551,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9117f5d4db391c1cf6927e7bea3db74b9a1c1add8f7eda9ffd5364f40f57b82f"
 dependencies = [
  "displaydoc",
+ "zerovec",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -5781,6 +5949,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "tiny-skia-path",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "utf16_iter"
+version = "1.0.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c8232dd3cdaed5356e0f716d285e4b40b932ac434100fe9b7e0e8e935b9e6246"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "utf8_iter"
+version = "1.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b6c140620e7ffbb22c2dee59cafe6084a59b5ffc27a8859a5f0d494b5d52b6be"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8parse"
 version = "0.2.2"
@@ -6597,6 +6777,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "write16"
+version = "1.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d1890f4022759daae28ed4fe62859b1236caebfc61ede2f63ed4e695f3f6d936"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "writeable"
+version = "0.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e9df38ee2d2c3c5948ea468a8406ff0db0b29ae1ffde1bcf20ef305bcc95c51"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "x11-dl"
 version = "2.21.0"
@@ -6730,6 +6922,30 @@ version = "0.1.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c94451ac9513335b5e23d7a8a2b61a7102398b8cca5160829d313e84c9d98be1"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke"
+version = "0.7.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6c5b1314b079b0930c31e3af543d8ee1757b1951ae1e1565ec704403a7240ca5"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "stable_deref_trait",
+ "yoke-derive",
+ "zerofrom",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "yoke-derive"
+version = "0.7.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "28cc31741b18cb6f1d5ff12f5b7523e3d6eb0852bbbad19d73905511d9849b95"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.66",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zbus"
 version = "3.15.2"
@@ -6885,6 +7101,49 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.66",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "zerofrom"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "91ec111ce797d0e0784a1116d0ddcdbea84322cd79e5d5ad173daeba4f93ab55"
+dependencies = [
+ "zerofrom-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerofrom-derive"
+version = "0.1.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0ea7b4a3637ea8669cedf0f1fd5c286a17f3de97b8dd5a70a6c167a1730e63a5"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.66",
+ "synstructure",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerovec"
+version = "0.10.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aa2b893d79df23bfb12d5461018d408ea19dfafe76c2c7ef6d4eba614f8ff079"
+dependencies = [
+ "yoke",
+ "zerofrom",
+ "zerovec-derive",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zerovec-derive"
+version = "0.10.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6eafa6dfb17584ea3e2bd6e76e0cc15ad7af12b09abdd1ca55961bed9b1063c6"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.66",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zune-inflate"
 version = "0.2.54"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e225b36..770616f 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ dirs = "5"
 env_logger = "0.10.0"
 grep = "0.3.1"
 ignore = "0.4.21"
-lexical-sort = "0.3.1"
 log = "0.4.20"
 notify = "6.1.1"
 open = "5.0.2"
@@ -26,6 +25,8 @@ tokio = { version = "1", features = ["process", "time"] }
 syntect = "5.1.0"
 two-face = "0.3.0"
 # Internationalization
+icu_collator = "1.5"
+icu_provider = { version = "1.5", features = ["sync"] }
 i18n-embed = { version = "0.14", features = ["fluent-system", "desktop-requester"] }
 i18n-embed-fl = "0.7"
 rust-embed = "8"
diff --git a/src/localize.rs b/src/localize.rs
index 1aab45a..70272fb 100644
--- a/src/localize.rs
+++ b/src/localize.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
 
+use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use i18n_embed::{
     fluent::{fluent_language_loader, FluentLanguageLoader},
     DefaultLocalizer, LanguageLoader, Localizer,
 };
+use icu_collator::{Collator, CollatorOptions, Numeric};
+use icu_provider::DataLocale;
 use rust_embed::RustEmbed;
 
 #[derive(RustEmbed)]
@@ -13,6 +16,7 @@ use rust_embed::RustEmbed;
 struct Localizations;
 
 pub static LANGUAGE_LOADER: OnceLock<FluentLanguageLoader> = OnceLock::new();
+pub static LANGUAGE_SORTER: OnceLock<Collator> = OnceLock::new();
 
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! fl {
@@ -51,3 +55,22 @@ pub fn localize() {
         eprintln!("Error while loading language for App List {}", error);
     }
 }
+
+pub fn sorter() -> &'static Collator {
+    LANGUAGE_SORTER.get_or_init(|| {
+        let mut options = CollatorOptions::new();
+        options.numeric = Some(Numeric::On);
+        let localizer = localizer();
+        let language_loader = localizer.language_loader();
+
+        DataLocale::from_str(&language_loader.current_language().to_string())
+            .or_else(|_| DataLocale::from_str(&language_loader.fallback_language().to_string()))
+            .ok()
+            .and_then(|locale| Collator::try_new(&locale, options).ok())
+            .or_else(|| {
+                let locale = DataLocale::from_str("en-US").expect("en-US is a valid BCP-47 tag");
+                Collator::try_new(&locale, options).ok()
+            })
+            .expect("Creating a collator from the system's current language, the fallback language, or American English should succeed")
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/project.rs b/src/project.rs
index 92106eb..0e1ce72 100644
--- a/src/project.rs
+++ b/src/project.rs
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ impl Ord for ProjectNode {
                 }
             }
         }
-        lexical_sort::natural_lexical_cmp(self.name(), other.name())
+        crate::localize::sorter().compare(self.name(), other.name())
     }
 }