Convert SVG to data-uri in SCSS

svg-data-uri.scss

// choose a color
$icon-color: #F84830;

// functions to urlencode the svg string
@function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: '') {
  $index: str-index($string, $search);
  @if $index {
    @return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
  }
  @return $string;
}

@function url-encode($string) {
  $map: (
    "%": "%25",
    "<": "%3C",
    ">": "%3E",
    " ": "%20",
    "!": "%21",
    "*": "%2A",
    "'": "%27",
    '"': "%22",
    "(": "%28",
    ")": "%29",
    ";": "%3B",
    ":": "%3A",
    "@": "%40",
    "&": "%26",
    "=": "%3D",
    "+": "%2B",
    "$": "%24",
    ",": "%2C",
    "/": "%2F",
    "?": "%3F",
    "#": "%23",
    "[": "%5B",
    "]": "%5D"
  );
  $new: $string;
  @each $search, $replace in $map {
    $new: str-replace($new, $search, $replace);
  }
  @return $new;
}

@function inline-svg($string) {
  @return url('data:image/svg+xml;charset=US-ASCII,#{url-encode($string)}');
}


// icon styles
// note the fill="' + $icon-color + '"
.icon {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 50px;
  height: 50px;
  background: inline-svg('<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
   viewBox="0 0 30 30" enable-background="new 0 0 30 30" xml:space="preserve">
<path fill="' + $icon-color + '" d="M18.7,10.1c-0.6,0.7-1,1.6-0.9,2.6c0,0.7-0.6,0.8-0.9,0.3c-1.1-2.1-0.4-5.1,0.7-7.2c0.2-0.4,0-0.8-0.5-0.7
  c-5.8,0.8-9,6.4-6.4,12c0.1,0.3-0.2,0.6-0.5,0.5c-0.6-0.3-1.1-0.7-1.6-1.3c-0.2-0.3-0.4-0.5-0.6-0.8c-0.2-0.4-0.7-0.3-0.8,0.3
  c-0.5,2.5,0.3,5.3,2.1,7.1c4.4,4.5,13.9,1.7,13.4-5.1c-0.2-2.9-3.2-4.2-3.3-7.1C19.6,10,19.1,9.6,18.7,10.1z"/>
</svg>');
}