oh, and if someone thinks printf() has an issue, here is a highschool version of the test code:
Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	for (int i = 0;i<argc;i++) {
		cout << i << " -> " << argv[i] << "\n";
	}
	return 0;
}


and the results are the same.
the last backslashes are escaped.

also, if I place some backslashes before the first quote (right before the arg that is), they also are escaped.

so, again, my VS has nothing to do with kix (except that kixtart was probably build with VS too) and still my programs have the same "issue"
that is, the issue is not kixtart related.
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