See discussion in: google/fonts#6877 (comment)
the gist of it:
In the meantime, may I suggest that you duplicate the glyph in the font so that either vertical bar shows up correctly? This would be conceptually similar to providing an alternate space-character at 194 instead of 32 for systems that don't handle the 32 as a glyph.
See discussion in: google/fonts#6877 (comment)
the gist of it: