We give a different presentation of a recent bijection due to Chapuy and Dołe ̨ga for nonorientable bipartite quadrangulations and we extend it to the case of nonorientable general maps. This can be seen as a Bouttier–Di Francesco–Guitter-like generalization of the Cori–Vauquelin–Schaeffer bijection in the context of general nonori- entable surfaces. In the particular case of triangulations, the encoding objects take a particularly simple form and we recover a famous asymptotic enumeration formula found by Gao.