It is known issue. There is a workaround, which can be found in the @tjbenton post on github:
@charset "UTF-8"
@function unicode($str)
@return unquote("\"")+unquote(str-insert($str, "\\", 1))+unquote("\"")
.icon-ok
&:before
content: unicode("e601")
Output:
.icon-ok:before {
content: "\e601";
}