Strange behavior using caret or backtick

Since some patches I experience the following behavior ([] denotes the cursor position, current patch level: 7.2.709):

a[a]aa -> a
aa[]aa -> <spc>
aa []aa -> ^
aa []aa -> <spc> " Should result in "aa ^[]aa"
aa []aa -> <esc>
aa[ ]aa -> s " gA shows 0x20
[]$a aa " Should result in "aa[]$aa"

This seems to be a bug. Can anyone verify this (Windows 7 64-bit; MinGW64-compiled)?

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