How do I include a font awesome icon in my svg?

I have an svg that includes images:

<g><image id="myImage" class="myClass" x="12" y="15" width="10" height="10" xlink:href="/images/pic.png"/></g>

How do I replace that line w/ a font awesome icon:

<g><i class="icon icon-cloud-download" x="12" y="15" width="10" height="10"></i></g>

doesn't seem to work as the image doesn't show up.

i is not valid SVG. You need to include the actual character that displays the icon. If you take a look at font awesome's stylesheet you will see...

.icon-group:before                { content: "\f0c0"; }
.icon-link:before                 { content: "\f0c1"; }
.icon-cloud:before                { content: "\f0c2"; }
.icon-beaker:before               { content: "\f0c3"; }
.icon-cut:before                  { content: "\f0c4"; }
.icon-copy:before                 { content: "\f0c5"; }
.icon-paper-clip:before           { content: "\f0c6"; }
.icon-save:before                 { content: "\f0c7"; }
.icon-sign-blank:before           { content: "\f0c8"; }
.icon-reorder:before              { content: "\f0c9"; }
.icon-list-ul:before              { content: "\f0ca"; }
.icon-list-ol:before              { content: "\f0cb"; }
.icon-strikethrough:before        { content: "\f0cc"; }
.icon-underline:before            { content: "\f0cd"; }
.icon-table:before                { content: "\f0ce"; }

But those are unicode characters encoded for CSS. In SVG you would need to change the syntax of example \f040 to:

<g><text x="0" y="0">&#xf040;</text></g>

And then in your stylesheet add:

svg text {
   font-family: FontAwesome;
}

According to Niek's comment, if you use the free version of Font Awesome 5+, you must use the following font-family declaration:

svg text {
   font-family: 'Font Awesome 5 Free';
}

my Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <script src="http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>JS Bin</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div title="Code: 0xe800" class="the-icons span3">

      <H3>Standard using:</H3>
    <i class="fa fa-camera-retro fa-4x"></i>
    <br>
      <H3>SVG using:</H3>
  </body>
</html>

var svg = d3.select("body")
  .append("svg")
  .attr("width", 250)
  .attr("height", 250);

svg.append("text")
  .attr("x",0)
  .attr("y",70)
  .attr("font-family","FontAwesome")
  .attr('font-size', function(d) { return '70px';} )
  .text(function(d) { return '\uf083'; });

How do I include a font awesome icon in my svg?

my Demo

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