While I would assume the EC is different, I don’t know for sure. The longstanding “issue” with the keyboard in the past simply came down to the fact that the keyboard was programmed to be US International alternative, instead of the standard US layout. In that layout almost every key was the same as standard layout except for | which sent a different keysym. If one were to set the keyboard to the US International alternative layout instead of standard US layout, the | key worked as expected. Otherwise you’d have to do one of the documented workarounds to remap that key manually.