Yeah, thank you for the info.
Sorry, I can't because I don't have the time to investigate further. The problem could be in the engine (pdfTeX). Or it could be a faulty LaTeX package.
Thank you for the report. I can reproduce the issue. But I do not agree that this is a MiKTeX-specific bug.
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