Photoshop CC 2019: Copy Text & Transform Issues

couple of niggles , 1: when an object is selected in free transform, and i tap any arrow key on the keyboard to move the object very slightly (as possible previously) nothing happens, or if it does the opacity lowers instead, 2: i wrote out some text and emailed it to myself, i copied & pasted in Ps, random letters have become symbols, instead of letters.... like @ instead of “a” etc...