diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3d7365cbc6..774339f58e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 4.1.4.0 (not yet released)
 - bug #3840 (additional fix) When exporting to gzip format, the data is compressed 2 times
 - bug #4209 Missing compression in one case
-
+- bug #4208 Can't browse tables after sorting on columns with fieldnames that have a '-'
 4.1.3.0 (2013-12-31)
 - bug #3938 PDFDefaultPageSize doc and easy configurability
 - bug #4198 Hovering over pie chart gives fatal JS error
diff --git a/libraries/sql.lib.php b/libraries/sql.lib.php
index 788a9d9bca..35ebf2d94e 100644
--- a/libraries/sql.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/sql.lib.php
@@ -230,10 +230,11 @@ function PMA_handleSortOrder($db, $table, &$analyzed_sql_results, &$full_sql_que
     if (empty($analyzed_sql_results['analyzed_sql'][0]['order_by_clause'])) {
         $sorted_col = $pmatable->getUiProp(PMA_Table::PROP_SORTED_COLUMN);
         if ($sorted_col) {
-            //remove the backquoting and tablename from retrieved preference
-            //to get just column name
-            $sorted_col = str_replace('`', '', $sorted_col);
-            $sorted_col = str_replace($table . '.', '', $sorted_col);
+            //remove the tablename from retrieved preference
+            //to get just the column name and the sort order
+            $sorted_col = str_replace(
+                PMA_Util::backquote($table) . '.', '', $sorted_col
+            );
             // retrieve the remembered sorting order for current table
             $sql_order_to_append = ' ORDER BY ' . $sorted_col . ' ';
             $full_sql_query
@@ -2278,7 +2279,7 @@ function PMA_executeQueryAndSendQueryResponse($analyzed_sql_results,
     // Handle remembered sorting order, only for single table query
     // Handling is not required when it's a union query
     // (the parser never sets the 'union' key to 0)
-    if (PMA_isRememberSortingOrder($analyzed_sql_results) 
+    if (PMA_isRememberSortingOrder($analyzed_sql_results)
         && ! isset($analyzed_sql_results['analyzed_sql'][0]['queryflags']['union'])
     ) {
         PMA_handleSortOrder($db, $table, $analyzed_sql_results, $full_sql_query);