icon-generation sass to scss from https://gist.github.com/coltpini/b59b3064d6ecde760c6a

gistfile1.txt

//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);
  }
}