diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b351ed3c0..cdc313e5f 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $Source$
     * lang/italian: Updated, thanks to Pietro Danesi (danone).
     * lang/serbian: Updated, thanks to Mihailo Stefanovic (mikis).
     * lang/persian-utf-8.inc.php3: Regenerated, was somehow broken.
+    * lang/sort_lang.sh: Ignores non file parameter.
 
 2003-10-15 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/russian-windows-1251: wrong charset (bug 823939)
diff --git a/lang/sort_lang.sh b/lang/sort_lang.sh
index 270563d7f..c9f158c8e 100755
--- a/lang/sort_lang.sh
+++ b/lang/sort_lang.sh
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ sortlang()
 echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
 for i in $1; 
 do
-    echo "Sorting $i"
-    sortlang $i $2
+    if [ ! -f $i ] ; then
+        echo "$i is not a file, skipping"
+    else
+        echo "Sorting $i"
+        sortlang $i $2
+    fi
     echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------"
 done;