ascii problem, icon generation

icon-generation

//Function that converts a base10 number to base16 number.
//This is needed to convert an index from a list to the appropriate hex value for unicode values.
@function decToHex($dec,$length)
	$hexVals: "A","B","C","D","E","F"
	$base: 16
	$q: $dec
	$result: ""
	@while $q != 0
		$mod: $q % $base
		$q: floor($q / $base)
		@if $mod > 9
			$mod: nth($hexVals, $mod - 9)

		$result: $mod + $result

	@while str-length($result) < $length
		$result: 0 + $result

	@return $result
//Hack -- this will allow the output to have "\e900", without this hack Sass compiles the \e9 first to an "é" so I couldn't get a "\e9" + "02" to work.
// Lots of thanks to "larsbo" for this function!
@function unicode($str)
	@return unquote("\"") + $str + unquote("\"")

//List of icons, these will be the classes
$utility: menu settings account secure home language info help warning refresh edit delete leave camera camera-active show history

// This will spit out all of the ".icon-xxx" rules so I don't have to maintain a bunch of them.
@for $i from 1 through length($utility)
	$item: nth($utility, $i)
	$unicode: \e9+decToHex($i - 1,2)
	.icon-#{$item}:before
		content: unicode($unicode)