diff --git a/src/main/perl/Fetch/ProfileCache.pm b/src/main/perl/Fetch/ProfileCache.pm
index ca12f2e..d325c97 100644
--- a/src/main/perl/Fetch/ProfileCache.pm
+++ b/src/main/perl/Fetch/ProfileCache.pm
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ sub ComputeChecksum
         unless (defined $value) {
             return md5_hex("_<undef>_");
         }
-        return md5_hex(encode_utf8($value));
+        return md5_hex(encode_utf8("$value\x1e$type"));
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/test/perl/cli.t b/src/test/perl/cli.t
index fe3db5d..d980dd7 100644
--- a/src/test/perl/cli.t
+++ b/src/test/perl/cli.t
@@ -79,10 +79,10 @@ like($txt,
      "dumpdb output path2eid");
 # \0 separated list of subpaths
 like($txt,
-     qr{eid2data:\n0 => a\0c\0e\n10000000 => nlist\n20000000 => 1740877ebcb53b5132e75cff986cd705\n1 => b}m,
+     qr{eid2data:\n0 => a\0c\0e\n10000000 => nlist\n20000000 => 3ee8d50d6f70735cfd53d9ea92215a22\n1 => b}m,
      "dumpdb output eid2data");
 like($txt,
-     qr{path2eid and eid2data combined:\n/ \(0\) =>\n  V: a\0c\0e\n  T: nlist\n  C: 1740877ebcb53b5132e75cff986cd705\n/a \(1\) =>\n},
+     qr{path2eid and eid2data combined:\n/ \(0\) =>\n  V: a\0c\0e\n  T: nlist\n  C: 3ee8d50d6f70735cfd53d9ea92215a22\n/a \(1\) =>\n},
      "dumpdb ouptut combined path2eid eid2data");
 diag $txt;