diff --git a/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp b/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp
index f8b9d7e407..133abc4f94 100644
--- a/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp
+++ b/src/libasr/codegen/asr_to_llvm.cpp
@@ -7981,9 +7981,7 @@ class ASRToLLVMVisitor : public ASR::BaseVisitor<ASRToLLVMVisitor>
         for (size_t i=0; i<x.n_values; i++) {
             if (i != 0) {
                 fmt.push_back("%s");
-                if (global_sep_space &&
-                    !(ASRUtils::is_character(*ASRUtils::expr_type(x.m_values[i]))
-                        && ASRUtils::is_character(*ASRUtils::expr_type(x.m_values[i - 1])))) {
+                if (global_sep_space) {
                     args.push_back(sep);
                 } else {
                     sep_no_space = sep_no_space != nullptr ? sep_no_space : builder->CreateGlobalStringPtr("");
diff --git a/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.json b/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.json
index fde8aee79c..b9c25f807d 100644
--- a/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.json
+++ b/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     "outfile": null,
     "outfile_hash": null,
     "stdout": "runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.stdout",
-    "stdout_hash": "9d9a68fea29f11320efb0764ce38ed3d4090f64457b0f1eb10251a2b",
+    "stdout_hash": "382a58aa2b426d46c2f22f343df9d99eb41653855b679300aade5102",
     "stderr": null,
     "stderr_hash": null,
     "returncode": 0
diff --git a/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.stdout b/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.stdout
index a3f624820b..6e19008748 100644
--- a/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.stdout
+++ b/tests/reference/runtime-test_list_item_mixed_print-a3fd49f.stdout
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Hello
-This isLPython
+ Hello
+This is LPython
 1 2 3 ... 3 4 5
 The first element is: 1
 The middle element is: 3