OS on a CD / multi-language support for e-mail

[Peter Pun]

Hi,

I am going to be traveling abroad for a while and am hinking it would be
great to have an OS on a CD and e-mail software on a USB stick so that I
could use the CD to boot up someone else's computer wherever I am, plug
in the USB stick and do my e-mail. I need an OS hat can also handle
Chineswe, German, Japanese, and Russian, without messing up the
characters, and so I am thinking that Thunderbird might be a good choice
for the mail software.

Is this newsgroup the right place to getr information concerning my
requirements?
If not, which newsgroup(s) would you recommend I should post to?

TIA for leads and other advice!

Peter

[Peter Pun]

Peter Pun <acc...@somehost.com> wrote:
> I need an OS hat can also handle
> Chineswe, German, Japanese, and Russian, without messing up the
> characters, and so I am thinking that Thunderbird might be a good choice
> for the mail software.

Sorry about the garbled message. Here is what I had tried to post:

I need an OS that can also handle Chinese, German, Japanese, and
Russian, without messing up the characters, and so I am looking for an
OS that natively uses Unicode. For the same reason I am thinking that