If a person is copy & pasting from code that they currently have in their remotes, it's a hassle to go through and manually change the symbol generated by Ctrl+K. Also, it's very easy to determine that the character is the one being generated by Ctrl+K, as opposed to Ctrl+U or Ctrl+B, as Ctrl+K is the only control character that uses a number afterwards.
I have never seen, before now, someone request that the control codes not be included in the code posted.
