I try to restore italics and diacritics in the books I produce, if possible (and read them before uploading). That means comparing with paper editions or scans if they are available. I did that with "The Forsyte Saga", for instance, where the original Project Gutenberg text had many of these things missing. Other producers would probably not take so much trouble. Regardless of what the book producer does, you cannot know the quality of the source text and formatting without checking.
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